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CALL ON MR AMERY BY MR JAMES JOHNSON, MP
3.00 PM ON 9 AUGUST 1973
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Present:
The Rt Hon Julian Amery MP
Mr James Johnson MP
Mr RB Crowson
Mr I J Rawlinson
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Mr Amery welcomed Mr Johnson and said that he was seeing him because the Secretary of State and Mr Royle were both away. Mr Johnson said he appreciated that the Secretary of State was away; he had already spoken to Mr Royle in Gloucestershire on the telephone. He had a number of points to make about Hong Kong. He had visited the Colony some five years ago, mainly to look at the working conditions of the textile workers. On his return he had seen Mrs Judith Hart and also Mr Foggon, the Labour Adviser. He had got to know Mrs Elsie Elliott very well; he thought she was a very sincere person doing a good job.
2. Mr Johnson said he recognised that self-government for Hong Kong was not feasible. Nevertheless there should be, in his view, a small elected minority in Legislative Council. They could articulate questions which were in people's minds. He did not think such a proposal would worry China; rather, it was a bogey in the minds of the commercial interests in Hong Kong who found the present system of no elected representatives in Legislative Council a very comfortable one for them. As things were, there was no real public accountability in Hong Kong.
3. Mr Johnson then turned to the Hong Kong Police Force. He realised that they had their difficulties, but people were asking how on earth Godber had managed to get away with so
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