JA3AOR
His Excellency
Sir E Youde GCMG MBE
Governor and Commander in Chief
HONG KONG
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
20 January 1986
Dear Teddy,
1.
the
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I
agree that the
of 6 January enclosing
that it
SCMP
was has
Many thanks for your letter editorial of 2 January.
it is excellent:
encouraging very suddenly produced such a good editorial. very impressed with its editorials over the past year!
2.
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to
I have not been
by up
reading
David
The
I have also followed this -Akers-Jones' press conference transcript. I thought he
did extremely well in quite difficult circumstances.
seem fortune in it
to me only possible hostages
to be
on page 16, where he said
that the introduction of direct election s to Lego would be a big change. This might be quoted back at us by the Chinese to justify opposition: but it
in would represent that it was not a big change.
3.
>
any
have case
been very
difficult
The other point is on page 27 where he said
to
that if
in the Green the points
be changed before being
the Chinese objec ted to
of any
not nevertheless Paper it could given to the Hong Kong people. I fear I can quite easily
foresee
changes.
circumstances
But
no
doubt
in
which
might we
be this will all
have water under
to
make
the
bridge by the time we get to 1987.
HRK OU
ECEIVED IN REGİSTRY
2 1 JAN 1986
ELSTRY
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Tums
Tay
A C Galsworthy
Hong Kong Department
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