CODE 18-77
NOTE FOR FILE.
Reference,
HONG KONG: MRS SUSAN YUEN
1. Mr Male has told me that Mr T K Ann, the Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, happened to speak to him at a lunch on 6 October about Mrs Susan Yuen, who recently wrote to the Secretary of State for Education and Science about UK "interference" in Hong Kong. (Mr Lipsey's letter of 5 October to Mrs Williams' Political Adviser and previous correspondence refers.)
2. Mr Ann told Mr Male that Mrs Yuen is very active in civic affairs in Hong Kong and was generally well thought of. (This prompted Mr Male to remark to me that Mrs Yuen sounded the sort of person that the Governor of Hong Kong might at some stage consider for appointment to the Legislative Council.) More interestingly perhaps, Mr Ann had said that Mrs Yuen was born in the same village in China as Mao Tse-teung and that her father had been the Chinese Ambassador in London at some point during the inter-war period. Mrs Yuen therefore knows Britain and this might be regarded as a possible additional qualification for her appointment to some public office in Hong Kong.
7 October 1976
D.F. Milton
DF Milton
Hong Kong Department
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