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(F 2456/1147/10)

PERSONAL AND CADENTIAL

Dear Gent,

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Foreign Office,

S.W.1.

2&rd! April 1945

41

Your letter No. 54145/2/45 of the

19th April.

I think there will almost certainly be difficulties about both the questions raised, i.e. the grant of exit permits and the setting up in China of a branch office of the Hong Kong planning unit. But I see no reason why Sansom should not consult the Ambassador about both of them and I have therefore no comments on your draft telegram to Calcutta. If and when it is approved, will you please let me know, as I think I ought to warn Seymour by telegram that Sansom will be approaching him on the points in question?

Yours sincerely,

(J.C. Sterndale Bennett)

Eigd (J.c.

G. E. J. Gent, sq., C.N.G., D.3.0.,

Colonial Office.

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