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FROM: R D CLIFT, HKD DATE: 22 JULY 1983
Mr Cyfr Hiki
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PS/Mr Luce
tyce Ministiv
Thank
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Jeon Br
cc: Mr Donald
Mr Thomson, FED
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CALL BY MR ROBERT ADLEY MP: 25 JULY 1983
Your minute of 11 July recorded Mr Luce's talk with
Mr Adley on 11 July. I understand that Mr Adley will call on
Mr Luce again at 5.30 on 25 July. A member of this Department
will attend.
2.
I attach some points to make, a copy of Mr Adley's article in the Guardian of 15 July, a summary of the main points made by him in his interview on the BBC Newsnight programme on 11 July and the Hansard record of a supplementary question
he asked in the House on 22 December 1982.
3.
Mr Adley's remarks on the Newsnight programme and in a
Hong Kong Commercial Radio interview on 12 July received wide
coverage in the independent Chinese language press in Hong Kong. While what Mr Adley has said is no doubt well-intentioned, his
theme that the incorporation of Hong Kong into China is inevitable
and that the people of Hong Kong had better get used to this idea
must undermine in both Hong Kong and' Peking the commitments that the Prime Minister has personally made to aim for an agreement acceptable to the people of Hong Kong.
22 July 1983
Qin
R D Clift
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Hong Kong Department
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