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TO DESKBY 17140OZ FCO
TELNO 192
OF 171155Z JANUARY 86
INFO DESKBY 180100Z PEKING
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*GISTRY
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Action Taken
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MY TELS NOS 160 AND 190: WHITE PAPER
COMMONS DEBATE
HTX+ HOUSE OF
SIR S.Y. CHUNG CALLED ON ME THIS EVENING ON BEHALF OF THE UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS OF EXCO AND LEGCO. THEY HAD MET THIS AFTERNOON
TO REVIEW THE DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT.
2. THE FIRST IMPACT OF MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS ON THE RADIO THIS MORNING WAS NEGATIVE. THEY WERE READ AS MEANING THAT THE UNOFFICIALS PROPOSALS HAD BEEN REJECTED. MISS DUNN COMMENTED CONSTRUCTIVELY ON THE PADIO TO THE EFFECT THAT SHE DID NOT INTERPRET THE STATEMENTS IN THAT WAY SEMICOLON AND THAT THE DOOR HAD BEEN LEFT OPEN. BUT
SHE WAS SOMETHING OF A LONE VOICE.
3. AT THE UMELCO MEETING THIS AFTERNOON FEELINGS WERE HIGH PARTICULARLY OVER THE APPARENT UNWILLINGNESS TO AGREE TO THE ENDORSEMENT IN THE PASSPORT. THERE WERE CALLS FOR A DELEGATION TO BE SENT TO CALL ON THE PRIME MINISTER. THE MORE EXTREME VOICES
SUGGESTED A BOYCOTT OF THE BNO PASSPORT. AFTER SOME HOURS THE MORE
SENIOR AND MODERATE MEMBERS PERSUADED THE MEETING THAT NO (NO)
DELEGATION SHOULD BE SENT FOR THE PRESENT AND THAT THE STATEMENT IN
MY TELNO 190 SHOULD BE ISSUED INSTEAD. IT HAS BEEN TELEXED TO A
NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: AND LORD KADOORIE IS BEING
ASKED IF HE WILL GO TO LONDON TO SPEAK TO IT IN THE DEBATE THERE.
(HIS HEALTH MAY NOT PERMIT THIS).
4.
1 CAN SEE THAT IT WAS INTENDED TO LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN, PARTICULARLY ON THE ENDORSEMENT. BUT UNLESS THIS IS MUCH CLEARER
IN THE STATEMENT TO BE MADE IN THE LORDS, FEELING HERE WILL BE VERY
HIGH INDEED WHEN MR RENTON ARRIVES NEXT WEEK.
YOUDE
HONG KONG AGREEMENT: NATIONALITY
LIMITED
HD/HKD
HD/FED
HD/NTD
RESEARCH D (MR WALKER)
DEP HD/PUSD
PS
PS/MR RENTON
PS/PUS
SIR W HARD ING MR WILSON
COPIES TO:
MR ROBERTS, NEWS DEPT
MR FIFOOT, LEGAL ADVISERS
MR GRAINGER, LEGAL ADVISERS
MR D MCDOUGALL, MVD
MR HYDE, HOME OFFICE
MR EMERY, B4 DIV, HOME OFFICE, CROYDON
MR NICHOLSON, PASSPORT DEPT, HOME OFFIC
ROOM 236, CLIVE HOUSE.
MR MCDONOUGH, B2 DIV, HOME OFFICE CONFIDENTIALER WOOD LEGAL ADVISERS
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