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important to do everything practicable to help him ye
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It seems pitable, therefore
deess
concern for Grey in such clear terms and
wonders whether this will not make them less
ready to release him in the long term. As
Sir D. Hopson has pointed out in his reply,
any move to secure visits to Mr. Grey,
ameliorate the conditions of his detention or
I
otherwise improve his situation, or cannot hoord
demonstrate to the Chinese the depth of our
concern and consequently Mr. Grey's value as
a hostage. But humanitarian considerations,
as well as public and Parliamentary interest
in Mr. Grey's plight, make it/impossible to
sit back and do nothing. Given
Given this fact,
the crux is the Governor's willingness to
accept a round of special visits in Hong Kong
It is for considera-
tion whether there is not advantage in having
these visits regularly, say once a quarter,
rather than having to re-negotiate the
exchange of visits ad hoc from time to time.
It is clear that the Chinese already equate
Mr. Grey quite firmly with the twenty odd
correspondents mentioned above. While it is
That possible that our continuing interest might
at any particular time.
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the best chance of being raise the price further (though I doubt thịs)
to mein lies
کہتی کہ کہیں گی
سلام ما
further in agreeing round of sperice visits. to
the
NENA COUespandent
in Hang
& other communist newstipres employees. Impresioned
Kang
a show of disinterest is most unlikely to
bring it down and is in any case not tolerable
to opinion in the United Kingdom.
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