, Dd.897300 250m 9/72 G.W.B.Ltd. Gp.863
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
CONFIDENTIAL
3
murderer had not been deterred by imprisonment from
committing another murder while in jail. The concept
of an eye for an eye was central to Chinese
philosophy.
5. I explained that part of the difficulty was that
the other dependent territories had elected
legislatures. Their decisions could be represented
to Parliament here as the expression of the will of
the people. This was why we had wondered about a
referendum. Y K Kan repeated that he would not
advise this. Mr Royle said there was no hurry. He
doubted whether we could reach any conclusion before
the autumn.
YK.
about the representative,
6. In answer to Kan's question I said that I would
tell Chi P' eng-fei that the time was not ripe. I
did not think that the appointment of a representative
would contribute to improving relations.
moment I did not see any viable variant.
Chiness
For the
X I asked Kan what he thought of the idea of a
which had appeared in the owess. Trade Office, He replied that the question of
protocol would be difficult to get round. Mr Royle
assured him that we were not going to sell Hong Kong
down the river.
8.
Later Mr Royle asked about police corruption.
Kan said he had spoken in favour of a committee
outside the police system. But we must avoid the
danger of lowering police morale.
To catch criminals
detectives had to be close to the ground. Witchhunting
/discouraged
police recruiting.
CONFIDENTIAL