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The article will presumably take the story up
to the period covered by Gary Catron's recent article in the China Quarterly. period, and I suppose that insofar as all this will be a revelation it could prove mildly embarrassing. I do not know what has already been published on this period that is in any way authoritative. At the seminar where Dr Chan read her paper the views expressed were amusing: Sir Lindsay Ride, in China at the time, was unaware of the Whitehall machinations, but unsurprised at the goings on. Other
I am not very familiar with the
reactions ranged from disbelief that H M G could have entertained such dastardly thoughts, to the narrow but Taipanly view, that "we always knew that Britain would never stand up for Hong Kong's interests."
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RC Samuel Esq Peking
J DI Boyd Esq
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