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Sir D. Allen
Permanent Under Secretary
Department
Mr.
Carter
c.c. News Dept. Mr. Haydon
IRD Mr. C. Wilson C.0. H.K. Dept.
Publicity for British subjects
The Permanent Under Secretary has asked
for comments on Peking telegram No. 886 which
advocates that we give much wider publicity to
the plight of British subjects detained in
China.
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It is true that earlier we did hold back on
publicity about British subjects because we
thought that reticence might help their release
and because we feared that too much publicity
would generate pressures in this country for
retaliation against the Chinese which would in
turn might cause the Chinese to treat members
of our Mission and British subjects worse than
already. they were doing As Mr. Cradock points out the policy of reticence does not appear to have
paid off, indeed it can be argued that the
Chinese were embarrassed by the publicity about
the burning of the Mission and the subsequent
withholding of exit visas. We know from a
study of "Reference News", a restricted
summary of the foreign press circulated to Chinese officials, that the Chinese take careful
note of references to their "uncivilised"
behaviour to diplomatists and other foreigners.
This does not necessarily mean that their
with China fild policy is influenced but it does suggest that
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there is some sensitivity on this subject.
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