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Copy for: Mr. J.C. Sterndale Bennett, CIG, MC. Foreign Office. With Mr. C.E.Key's compliments.

16/ALO/1785(F.5).

Wai beball, London,

82

S..1.

Dear Villiane,

76011/1147/10

29th August, 1945.

ith reference to your letter of 28th August, No. 15244/45, about allowing the return of the merican Backs to Hong Kong, I agree your âraft reply to the Banks provided the words "the Kilitary Camander is satisfied that" are inserted efter "cs soon as" in the first sentence,

Gant (hés agreed to the line I proposed in my letter of 22nd August to Tahley Clarke and I should be grateful if Stemdale Bennett, to whom I am sending a copy of this letter, would confirm that a cable has gone to Washington,

A copy of this letter is also being sent to Young.

F5596/199/61

Yours sincerely,

(Sgd) C. E. KEY

J.B. Williams, Esq., Colonial Office, Dover House, wizitohall,

F.6337

S SEP 1945

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