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FROM: R D CLIFT, HKD
DATE: 11 October 1983
cc: Mr Donald
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Mr Hartland-Swann, SEAD
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VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG: LETTER FROM REV K L STUMPF CBE
PROBLEM
1.
How to respond to a letter sent to Mr Luce by the Rev K L
Stumpf CBE, Chairman of the Hong Kong Community Council for the
Resettlement of Vietnamese Refugees.
RECOMMENDATION
2.
I recommend that Mr Luce respond on the lines of the attached
draft. SEAD concur.
BACKGROUND
3.
Mr Stumpf has sent identical letters to a number of people
including Mr James Adams, Mr Hyde of the Home Office and Mr Browning
of the ODA. Mr Adams sent a consolidated reply on 28 September.
4. Mr Stumpf has been a leading figure for many years in the
social welfare field in Hong Kong, and is particularly well-known
for his work for the Hong Kong Christian Service, the Hong Kong
Society for the Blind and the Action Committee against Narcotics.
Since the main influx of Vietnamese refugees hit Hong Kong in 1979,
he has taken a leading role in operating services for refugees in
Hong Kong and in attempting to persuade overseas governments to
accept refugees in Hong Kong for resettlement. Not all his
initiatives have been successful, on occasion through his own
impatience with bureaucratic procedures, but his efforts on Hong
Kong's behalf have nevertheless been considerable.
11 October 1983
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R D Clift
Hong Kong Department
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