China, with possible grave political embarrass ment for the Hong Kong Government, especially
at this time when relations with China are
so fragile.
We find it very difficult to accept the line of argument reported in my second para- graph and are quite sure that we could not
sustain it with Ministers here as a
convincing answer to the
that the
disciplinary.proceedings were so defeative
of
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If, however, you feel that despite the strong presumption that justice was not done you
must resist any remedial steps on the grounds reported in my third paragraph, then must we think advise you that it will be necessary for you
to he set out
to set out those grounds (in full for
consideration by Ministers.
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