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UNCLASSIFIED
FCO PLEASE PASS TO GOVERNOR HONG KONG
TO PRIORITY GOVERNOR, HI 35 OF 20 JULY
COPIED TO FCO FOR INFORMATION
AKK 280/1 RECEIVED IN RESISTRY NO. 51 2 1 JUL 1978
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PRECIOUS BLOOD SCHOOL MEETING WITH MP'S
A GROUP OF MP'S MET THE TWO TEACHERS AND SUBSEQUENTLY ASKED
IF THEY COULD SEE THE GOVERNOR, THEY READILY WITHDREW THIS
REQUEST WHEN THEY REALISED THE GOVERNOR WAS IN SCOTLAND AND
ARRANGED INSTEAD TO SEE ME,
3,
FARRY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN CHARGE BUT WAS LATE,
JAMES JOHNSON TOOK THE CHAIR TO START WITH AND THE OTHER
MEMBERS PRESENT WERE JAMES LAMOND, MARTIN FLANNERY AND DENNIS CANAVAN. JOHNSON STARTED WITH A STATEMENT THAT SEVERAL MEMBERS HAD INTERVIEWED THE TWO TEACHERS, WERE MOST IMPRESSED WITH THEM AND THOUGHT THEY HAD BEEN TREATED SHABDILY. ? SAID THAT THE TRAIN OF EVENTS WAS BEING INVESTIGATED BY THE COMMITTE OF EKJURY. THEY ACCEPTED THAT MY STATEMENT THAT THE CHAIRMAN WAS A MAN OF CONSIDERABLE STATURE AND THAT THE TERMS OF REFERENCE WILL EMBLE THE COMMITTEE TO EXAMINE ALL THE SURROUNDING FACTS. IT APPEARED TO ME THAT THEY BELIEVED THAT THE TEACHERS HAD BEEN DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BECAUSE OF THE IR EXPOSURE OF THE FRAUD.
I SAID THAT WHILE
THE DETAILS OF EVENTS MIGHT STILL BE OBSCURE, THIS WAS
A PREPOSTEROUS ALLEGATION AND I FELT CONFIDENT THAT IT WOULD
NOT BE SUBSTANTIATED.
AFTER SOME FURTHER DESULTORY
DISCUSSION, ALL PRESENT ACCEPTED THAT THE FACT THAT UNTIL THE
COMMITTEE REPORTED THERE WAS NO FURTHER ACTION ANY MEMBER
SHOULD TAKE. THEY DID AN HOWEVER THREATEN QUESTIONS ETC.
IF THE TEACHERS STORY WERE SUBSTANTIATED,
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