Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1
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A E Donald Esq Political Adviser HONG KONG
Dear Alan,
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HONG KONG:
A CASE TO ANSWER
Your reference
Our reference
HKK 13/15
Date
18 October 1974
1.
You should know of the attached "International Resolution" on Hong Kong which is to be debated at the Annual Conference of the UK National Union of Students on 29 November- 2 December. It is a typical example of the sort of pressures which are building up here, and you will see that its "background information" is exclusively drawn from "Hong Kong: A Case to Answer".
2.
This prompts me to ask whether you have been able to make any progress in following up my suggestion that the Hong Kong Government might prepare a commentary on the booklet's contents (para. 5 of my letter of 13 September). The so-called information summarised in the NUS paper is a fair digest of those of the booklet's allegations that are being harped on here. Many of the answers have of course already been given in Teddy Kidd's letters and elsewhere, but it would be helpful if they could be brought together in one place. We could then consider the possibility of counter propaganda in the NUS.
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Yours ever, Ddmw,
A C Stuart
Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Dept.
S T Kidd Esq, Hong Kong Government Office
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