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SECRET AND PERSONAL
DRAFT
To:-
His Excellency
Sir David Trench, GCMG.,
Government House,
MC..
Type 1+2 pres
From
Sir A. Galsworthy
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Hong Kong.
The hauble has been
1)
a severe bout of fle (not your local vanity, but our own Chipstead strain, which for sheer virulence I build back ajarça- your any day),
follaved very shortly. thereafter by
NP. Your letter was read here with the greatest of interest. IV is this kind 2) personal appreciatin which conveys bus to clearly the flavour Savour of thewigs in nu Colony, & just caps off in the ryur way. he flow of the information
an ku
that comes bus from
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four offices
bisin ces unit
[Hay Kong.
2
our
know I ought to have state written much sooner than this It
ing failed to
thank you for
reply earlier to your personal letter of
30 December.
-respono-
I am afraid that my delayed
mène into a sudden and
I had Stake
with unexpected unsensäuled visit
tpa
the Bahamas.
PP. "We note with pride'& pleasure that
Auf
Hong Kong goes from strength to strength
on the economic front ne I never cease to
marvel at what four million hard-working people
have done and are still doing. So much so
that countries many times its size make no bones about the fact that they regard the Colony as an increasingly formidable trade rival
I foresee greater difficulties for Hong Kong's trade as "injured" countries have resort to restraint arrangements. Furthermore, on present indications, fear of Hong Kong competition looks like producing a powerful lobby in favour of the Colony's exclusion from any OECD preferences scheme for the under-
we shall shortly & cavoultry you ar developed territories; what can be done about this is-e-question on which, I understand, ve er intending to consult you shortly.
•
On the political front, I am quite sure you are right in saying that the Communist press and their programme of educational expansion present the most intransigent problems facing us at the moment. Looking at the scene from this distance, one gets the impression that the latter is the more dangerous of the two; this
afair as we see it how here may be because, fightly or wrongly, it appears From beny that the general public of Hong Kong are too sophisticated to be easily influenced by propaganda, especially since so many of them have experienced the delights of Chinese Communism at first hand. The present policy of the Communists in using their schools for the
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