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(f)
Which would be communit
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will be involved in considerable expenditure on the
development of technical education, quite apart from
heavy expenditure on other social services such as housing,
(there are still some 500,000 squatters), the medical
services and the public assistance scheme.
Should there
failure to mouse be large-scale unemployment as a result of falling exports
civil disturbances might well ensue and in such circum-
stances the possibility of increased expenditure by HMG
cannot be ignored.
Unless we are prepared to accept the consequences of a
first class political crisis in Hong Kong, we cannot use
the official majority in the legislature to force
through acceptance of a contribution greater than that
which Unofficial Members of the Council are prepared to
accept. The Governor puts this figure at a maximum of
£7.5 million.
The then Secretary of State for the Colonies had the
utmost difficulty in 1966 in negotiating the present
defence contribution in Hong Kong: it is expected that
the difficulties in negotiating the post-1971 contribution
will be at least as severe.
(h) The distinction between intend and extend security in
Hong Kong in artefarel. The external threat in from The Communit
Their strategy is to promet play Goverment in China.
grievances in Hong Kong
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Маско-уре гласный, A crisis over the defence contribution would
the beast chance of all of formenting
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November, 1970
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