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(1512/76/67)
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Dear Littlejohn Cook,
British Embassy,
Tokyo.
14 September, 1967.
Hong Kong Working Group, London.
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When I wrote to you on 1 September (1512/70/67) there was one point which I omitted to make about securing favourable publicity for Hong Kong. It is that the influence of the American weekly magazines Time and flewsweek in this context is overwhelming and I think that the importance of securing favourable reports in these two publications outweighs almost all other considerations. In Japan alone they claim to have a combined circulation of 22,000 copies and are widely read among the Chinese community and by European and American businessmen. The circulation of the two magazines throughout Asia is estimated to be in the region of 185,000 copies.
2. We look forward to receiving copies of the Hong Kong newspapers which were requested in our telegram Zo. 463 of 25 August to the Foreign Office, copied to Fong Kong.
3. I am sending a copy of this letter to the Political Adviser in Hong Kong.
Yours ever,
John Figgers
(J.G.Mggess) Counsellor (Information)
G.S. Littlejohn-Cook, Esq.,
Joint Information Policy Guidance Dept.,
Foreign Office.
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