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Registry No.

Draft.

541/138/G

G. P. Y.

r. Paskin,

Colonial Office.

(From Mr. Young)

Copy to:

618

Mr. Waldock (Admty)|

Lieut.-Colonel Williams (W.0.)

Mr. Cribbett

(Air Ministry)

Mr. Slade (M.W.T.)

Mr. Fraser (Board

of Trade)

7/9

22.

4/9.

+

Dear Paskin,

d

6 September, 1943.

22

As Ashley Clarke is away on leave,

I am answering your letter 55104/2/43

of the 27th August, proposing a meeting

to discuss the future of Hong Kong.

would

I am afraid that there will be little

point in our attending a meeting of the

kind proposed, as we should be unable to

make any addition to the official view-

point/set out in paragraph 2 of your

letter. If, on the other hand, the

other recipients of your letter feel that

they would like to come, we should of

course be prepared to send someone in

the capacity of observer.

As regards the China Association's

letter, referred to in the penultimate

paragraph of your letter under reference,

we do not feel that there is anything that

we can usefully add.

I am sending a copy of this letter to

Waldock (Admiralty), Lieut.-Colonel

Williams (War Office), Cribbett (Air

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