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The problem is to find concessions which would satisfy this requirement without undermining Hong Kong Government authority. Of course the Chinese will make publicity, as this would be the whole point of the operation; but we can surely ridicule this, if concession is of minor proportions. We should not neglect possibility that public opinion in Hong Kong, as in the case of the definite agreement last November, would react well to measures which they would see as designed to facilitate a return to normal working relations with China.
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Sir D. Hopson
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