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6.
(d) The next
overriding
transition
12 years
will not be easy.
Our
objective
should be
to
en sure
allows
which is both smooth
the people of
and which
a
Hong Kong to continue to enjoy
prosperity, stability and the lifestyle they are
used to for 50 years after 1997.
(e) With the recent sensitisation of Hong Kong
opinion, proposals for constitutional development
will have to be scrutinised extremely closely.
I t will not be right or possible to transport
Westminster practices Locke, stock and barrel to
Hong Kong.
(£)
There is likely to be an acute period of unease
in the early 1990s. We shall then have to pay
particular atention to the morale of the civil
service and police.
If you agree, I will write to the Governor making
these points.
31 July 1985
A C Galsworthy
Hong Kong Department
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