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and this has been sustained in The ease of Mr. Even работами.
objection to
4. The main Guttyth Mr. Cradock's
case is, I think, that he exaggerates the degree
of interest which it would be possible to
stimulate in either the British or the foreign
press about the fate of British subjects.
There was naturally very considerable interest
Pgonally about the time Mr. Grey was
arrested in July 1967. Members of the Mission
continued to attract attention from the time
that the Mission was burned until the 199
remaining exit visas had been granted and The
whole question of British subjects was aired
again when Sir D. Hopson left China.
This was,
rapidly followed by Czechoslovakia and since
then public attention both here and abroad has
and on, for exampl
on
been focussed on this, and Biafra,the possibility of a flare up in the Middle East
and so on. As the Foreign Office statement
on Mr. Johnston and the more recent statement
about Mr. Grey's health show, the press to hav
mythic
some extent became
to Chinese unpleasant-
ness-They are more likely to give
prominence to particular cases if there is some
"human interest" angle. father than
to
5.
Formy office grutement· What I have said about the British
Jespon
subjects applies a fortiori to the foreign
press. IRD have regularly placed material
about Chinese maltreatment of British subjects
and other foreigners in foreign newspapers both
in Europe and in Afro Asian countries. It has
been suggested that the best targets would be
/those
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