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virulent and inflammatory material with
apparent impunity. It would give the impression that we were afraid to tackle
that section of the press, no doubt lead
to even greater excesses on their part, and boost Communist morale.
3. We believe therefore that if we start
Comnuus V action against the press now we shall
almost certainly have to be prepared to
act equally firmly, and soon, against
owned
C.P.G. controlled press, or face possibly
humiliating setback.
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4. Would you nonetheless feel that, even
on this basis, f***xxthat advantages of proceeding against Communist press outweigh
disadvantages of allowing them to continue
5. As regards your paragraph 7, the thinking hitherto has, as you know, been that if we had to act against the press
it would be preferable to do so under
Emergency Regulations rather than under existing law, for reasons given in your
see parajuple & of our Filgram No.1038 paragraph
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From point of view of
Kere "provocation" to Peking we feel that the difference between the two courses would in present circumstances be only marginal,
There is also the consideration that if
you proceeded under the existing law and this proved unsatisfactory, it might then be that much more difficult to introduce Emergency Regulations for the purpose.
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6. As seen from here, therefore, we are
inclined to think that balance of advantage would lie in favour of proceeding under Emergency Regulations unless you still felt that it would for local reasons be better to act under existing law. Grateful your comments, and to know what form action under Emergency Regulations
would take.
7. In light of your reply we will submit
at once to Ministers.
(Passed D.S.Ao for repetition
to Peking
and POZAD Singapore),
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