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Reporter:
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in fact r oat of Saigon has boon OVUN O- one of these selection
trips simply in order to put every information to the refugees abort
life and we have also prepared film material and I think slides in order
to give people who may be thinking of coming to United Kingdom an idea
of what the country in like which I believe is the right policy. Well
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secondly, of course, we want to know whether they have the desire to
come and we want to know what their family consist of.
will be members of broken families.
Sometimes they
Obviously we want to take note of
who else might come. We want to know whether they have got relations
of any sort in the United Kingdom may be one of the people that I heard
talking yesterday said he got I think is a brother in a town in Scotland.
That'n useful information because when they get to the linited Kingdom
and ith possible to hand on the information to make life easier for
that refugee concerned. So really we are trying to get a picture of
the refugee which can be sent back so that there is a good basis
knowledge to get an idea of what his aptitudes are and also to make a
sort of judgement he is the sort of person who is likely to fit in and
get on well in the United Kingdom.
Raison: Yes, I think it's quite clear that as you have said we are ultimately,
to use the old phrase, the colonial power we have a responsibility for
Hong Kong and of course our policy is to work very closely with the
Government here.
Reporter:
Raison: Well, I think most people have been struck by the fact that the refugees
generally have a strong desire to work.
Certainly the refugees that I
have talked to in the United Kingdom, the one's who have come over have
seemed to me to have a strong motivation to work, Now all sorts of groups
/of people
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