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COLONIAL
OFFICE
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Dear Sir David Scott,
Hong Kong Planning Unit
Colonial Office
-2-Park Street, W.1.
22nd August, 1945
A
R. 23/8/24558,00
7 thnk you for your note of the 2 Ali 1945
which I shall show to Reeves so soUTT him.
meet
As I am not leaving for Hong Kong until early next week, I have a little time at my disposal, part of which, I feel, could not be better employed than in recording my own appreciation of all that Reeves did for the people of Hong Kong during a very try- ing time in Macau. As liaison officer between him and the Macau Government for refugee business, I had ample opportunity to judge of his work, and, though he and I did not always agree, I can hon- estly say that we refugees could not have had a better man nor one more personally solicitous of the welfare of each and every one of us.
It would be wrong of me not to mention in this letter that all the British subjects who sought refuge in Macau are deeply grateful to its Governor, Commander Gabriel Teixeira, for his con- tinued interest in us at a time when dif ficulties unparalleled in the his tory of any colonial admin- istration would have justified a certain lack of sympathy in the problems of us refugees. I res- pectfully suggest that some suitable acknowledgment of this be made by His Majesty's Government at the proper time.
Finally, it would be discourteous and ungrate- ful not to take this opportunity to record my thanks for all that His Majesty's Government have
Sir David Scott
Foreign Office
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