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Registry No.

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential.

Restricted. Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence

DRAFT

LETTER

To:-

His Excellency Sir Murray

MacLehose KCMG MBE

Government House HONG KONG

Type 1 +

FROM

Mr Royle

Telephone No. Ext.

Department

HONG KONG'S FIRST ARTS FESTIVAL

1. I was delighted to read your despatch of

19 April and to know that your Arts Festival had

been such a success. I do heartily congratulate

you.

The Festival was a worthy complement to your

other social programmes, which as you know we hold

in high regard. The idea may, as you say, have

been artistic madness; but it was certainly

great

magnificent madness and a magnificent success.

The degree of local Chinese participation in the

audience was particularly encouraging. Further

localisation of the programmes will, as you say,

encourage this, as will modified arrangements to

make the tickets more easily available to Hong Kong

people.

2.

I have also written to Ian Hunter to congratu-

late him.

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