COLONIAL
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DOVER HOUSE,
WHITEHALL,
S&W + 1**
Enter 202
26th November, 1945,
Boon
TC697
Dear Scott,
27. Nov 1945
I am sorry to have been so long in replying to your letter F 9857/1147/10 of the 15th November regarding the return of United States business men to Hong Kong.
You will, however, in the meantime have had copies of my correspondence with Brigadier Brazier of the War Office and have learned that Hong Kong reported on 22nd November that they were making a local announce- ment about the resumption of private trading on that day. As soon as we get the text of the announcement which was made locally, we shall have to make an announcement here.
You may prefer to defer the reply to the United States Embassy until we have made our announcement here, and to enclose with your reply a copy of the announce- ment. If, however, you wish to send a reply now, I suggest that you should, in the first place, explain with reference to the suggestions made in the first paragraph of Mr. Allison's note of November 8th, that, as a liberated territory, it has been necessary/to restrict the entry of civilians into Hong Kong in the same way as in the Philippines. The business men who have so far been allowed in are confined to bankers, British and Allied, and one or two industrial organisa- tions such as those providing public utilities which are essential to the life of the community. With these exceptions, British business men have been in exactly the same position as United States business men, but
A.L. SCOTT, ESQ.,
FOREIGN OFFICE.
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