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Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1
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JA Harrison Esq
Security Branch
Colonial Secretariat
HONG KONG
Telephone 01-
Your reference (64) in SCR3/3571771 II
Our reference HKK 1/2
Date
19 November 1973
LAS
K. f.
จ) Who Fell
THE "KNOW CHINA" MOVEMENT
1. Many thanks for your letter of 25 September, enclosing the paper produced by the Special Branch.
2. We showed the paper to Mr Royle, who thought the new movement might become very disturbing. The participants evidently regard their policy not only as preparing themselves for an inevitable hand-over to China, but also as aimed at promoting and bringing forward that end. If this is so the movement could presumably move quite quickly from understandable cultural nationalism into subversion. Mr Royle has accordingly said that he hopes it will be watched carefully, and that we can see regular Special Branch reports on it.
3. We noticed that, in paragraph 2, the report said that young people "can expect to live the prime of their lives under whatever regime is in charge of China in the 1990's". The implication that such an expectation is correct seems to be rather outside the field of the Special Branch - but perhaps this is only a point of drafting.
R B Crowson
Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Department
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