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In December 1964, Lieutenant
Exhaut
tami
olonel Cantlia
by In M. H. Mingar freign Office) en bu 1964:
Foreign Office on an intervie
of 16. Du.
that he had had in Peking the
previous month with 110 140=2HPty
Secretary-General of the Chines
People's Institute for joreign
Affairs
Colonel Cantlie reported Wo
as having referred to remarks on
Hong Kong made by Chou En-lai to
Colonel Cantlie during/his last
visit to China and as having gone
on to say that the Chinese liked
to see the British/there;
did not like changes in
personalities or/ to see new
people coming to power.
they
Colonel Cantlie did not know how
to interpret these remarks at the
time; but when he went on to
Hong Kong and found the
newspapers/ there full of
references to the need for
placing/greater power in the
hands of the Chinese population,
he had drawn the implication that
the Chinese People's Government
would be opposed to any such
development.
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3.
Of the above reports only that at (a)
is in any way categorical and I think that
it does correctly indicate the likely Chinese
attitude to any constitutional development
in Hong Kong.
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