CANAVAN STAYED ONLY A FEW MINUTES BEFORE LEAVING FOR
ANOTHER COMMITTEE, HE IS EXTREME LEFT WING AND WAS EXPELLED
FROM THE CHAMBER FOR A DAY BY THE SPEAKER A FEW DAYS LATER
FOR REMARKS ABOUT SCOTTISH PEERS. HE DID NOT STRIKE ME AS
BEING PASSIONATELY INTERESTED. PARRY CAME IN LATE AND
CONTRIBUTED) NOTHING.
5.
FLANNERY, WHEN THE SCHOOL DISCUSSION WAS OVER, SAID NOTHING OUT OF HONG KONG WOULD SURPRISE HIM, THE PLACE WAS A CESSPOOL. BEFORE I COULD RESPOND, LAMOND REACTED STRONGLY THERE WAS GENERAL DISCUSSIONON SOCIAL SERVICES, TRADE UNIONS (THEY ALL AVAIT THE TURNER REPORT WITH IMPATIENCE), CIVIL LIBERTIES, ETC. THE BULK OF THE DISCUSSION TOOK PLACE
BETWEEN FLANNERY AND LAMOND AND I COULD SCARCELY GET A WORD IN. FLANNERY SOFTENED A GOOD DEAL BEFORE THE END OF THE MEETING. HE IS THE FIRST STRONLY ANTI HONG KONG PREJUDICED LEFT WING MP I HAVE COME ACROSS BUT WAS FORTUNATELY VERY ILL INFORMED OF THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS IN HONG KONG. WE
DID NOT PART ON POOR TERAS.
I HAVE JUST SEEN A TELEX OF THE SOME'S ACCOUNT OF PARRY'S
LETTER TO THEM. SINCE HE HAD NOT EVEN TURNED UP WHEN
JOHNSON MADE HIS OPENING REMARKS HIS LETTER SOUNDS ODD. IT
IS, HOWEVER, TRUE THAT JOHNSON DID SPEAK FORCIBLY. IT IS HOWEVER, ALSO TRUE THAT THEY ALL ACCEPTED THAT THEY WERE NOT IN A POSITION TO MAKE & JUDGEMENT BEFORE THE COMMITTEE
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