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MEDIATE PEKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE
Telno 338
23 April, 1968
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Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 338 of 23 April. Repeated for information to:
Hong Kong.
SM) My telegram No. 334:
Visit to Grey.
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I think that
Publicity will need careful consideration. news should be withheld from the Press until Grey's mother has been informed, and I should prefer it to be initially released here to his
•Western colleagues who are naturally much concered and deserve a break. I would therefore propose to talk to the Press tomorrow 24 April. If Grey is in reasonable shape it will be a straightforward matter giving details of the visit etc., and of his confinement as told to us by him. If he is obviously in poor health I think we must also say so. If however he appears to have been brain washed I would propose to say nothing on this score.
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Please send an immediate telegram saying whether you agree.
F.0. pass Hong Kong No. 239.
Sir D. Hopson
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