Registry No.
DRAFT s/o Letter
Type 1 +
From
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
To:-
Top Secret.
-Seeret.
X
Confidential.
X
P. C. M. Sedgwick, Esq., CMG, Hong Kong Government Office, 54, Pall Mall, S.W.1.
Telephone No. & Ext.
-Restricted:
Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
Hola Ober
Ныл
Ed. (3746)
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
Department
50
I am replying to your letter of 16 November with
which you enclosed a copy of the paper produced by the
Overseas Public Relations Coordination Committee in
Hong Kong on steps to maintain overseas confidence in the
Colony.
From our study of the paper it seems to us that it is
intended to set out Hong Kong's own domestic arrangements
to project the Colony's image overseas. We have reached
this conclusion because nowhere does the paper mention what
part the United Kingdom information effort is to be asked
to play. It does, however, refer in paragraph 5 to the
use of various British Missions overseas as "agencies
engaged in retaining, repairing and fostering overseas
confidence" in Hong Kong. But this appears to be a
reference to an already existing situation.
Rivett-Carnac is to return here from Hong Kong
later this month and he will doubtless be able to clarify
the above points.
I understand that the reason why China is not
mentioned in paragraphs 5 or 6 of the paper is because
that country is regarded as requiring separate and special
treatment.
On a matter of minor detail, should not the
reference in paragraph 4(g) be to paragraph 5?
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