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MR WALTER EASY
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Mr Willyson
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Thank you for sending me Walter Easy's seminar
He has been In its way, it is quite clever. good at picking up all our evasiveness about long-term issues. The trouble is that his conclusion in no way follows from the argument. The only supporting evidence he ought really to adduce for his theory is the strange reference in the Crossman diaries to a special Hong Kong committee allegedly working on "withdrawal". No decent historian, however, would base such a far-fetched thesis on such flimsy evidence.
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Two particular points occur to me in reading
Easy's careful quoting of Parliamentary Questions about treaties, Royal Instructions, etc. suggests that he is the originator of the questions; and
his interpretation of the significance of a new British Nationalities Act (page 22) underlines what we have all been saying about the danger of this being misunderstood.
I hope
We will look out for any signs of the Easy thesis appearing in local Chinese journals. it doesn't.
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