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Mr. Lon Port (Radio Hong Kong) What specific subjects have you
discussed during your visit horo?
Tho
Mr. Stewart: Woll, I think all those that you right imagino.
problems of the social sorvicos of tho Colony, the one that was just raised
about the powers of local government, matters of trade, the constitutional
position as between Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, and tho relations both
of the United Kingdom and Hong Kong with China.
Mr. Lon Port: Do you fool that your discussions hore will load to
any major change of policy in any direction at all?
Mr. Stomart: Wall, this is one of the things I shall have to consider
when I got back. As I say I camo hore to inform myself. Before making decisions,
I shall have to havo a littlo timo to think.
Mr. Frank Robertson (Daily Tolograph):
When you woro informing
yourself, did you speak with othor than civil servants or appointed mambors
of the Executivo and Logislativo Councils?
Mr. Stowart: Not in a formal senso. I mot both the official and
tho unofficial members of the Councils, and I havo mot somo other people loss
formally. I'vo triod within the limited timo to koop myself as informed as
I could.
Mr. D.R. Rajagopal (National Herald): How hopeful are you, Sir,
of Britain approaching the Anglo-Soviet joint initiativo in Indo-China?
And what are your assessments of tho dimensions of the conflict in Cambodia?
And how hopeful are you of rostoring security, sanity and peace in the
disturbod conditions of Asia?
Mr. Stewart: I do regard what is happening in Cambodia as
vory serious indood. It is very much our view, Britain's viow as one of tho
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