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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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RP Margolis Esq HONG KONG
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Date
September 1981
Dear Richard,
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1. Thank you for your letter of 22 August and enclosures. cannot have been easy for you and David Wilson to suppress a chuckle upon reading NCNA's Speaking Note of 21 August. Wang Kuang's devotion to duty in the all pervading decadence of Hong Kong presumably earns him high marks in somebody's book!
2. Meanwhile the Chinese Embassy here are no doubt maintaining a vigil in Soho for similar manifestations. You will recall their protest over 'The Coldest Winter in Peking' and its aftermath (Hugh Davies' teleletter of 27 July). The Chinese Embassy got their own way but the Hong Kong Cinema in Gerrard Street take the line that they have merely 'temporarily' suspended the showing of the film. The film continues to be advertised prominently in the lobby of the cinema, with the confident boast 'Banned in Hong Kong: ban lifted in England'. No doubt the 'temporary suspension' formula is being used to save face, but I would not discount the possibility that the film will eventually be shown in defiance of the wishes of the Chinese Embassy,
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Yours Ever,
Alan
A R Paul
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Far Eastern Department
cc:
RN Peirce Esq, Peking Mr Williamson, HKGD, FCO
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P.S. Nice to have
you
back
on the circuit. Hype you are
all settling in well
ir.
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