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HK 400/1
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CE LEEKS
HONG KONG DEPARTMENT
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DATE:
8th January 1987
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MP'S LETTER: ARTICLE BY MR HARVEY STOCKWIN.
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400/1
IN REGISTRY
14 JAN 1997
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Problem
1.
Attached
INDEX
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Action Taken
How should we reply to Mr Leigh's letter of 30 December to
the Secretary of State, enclosing a letter from a constituent
concerning an article by Mr Stockwin in the South China Morning Post
(SCMP) of 14 December?
Recommendation
2.
I recommend that Mr Renton reply on the lines of the
attached draft.
Background
3.
Mr Stockwin's article, written in the form of a memorandum
to the Prime Minister on the type of person who should be appointed
as the next Governor of Hong Kong, is very much par for
Mr Stockwin' S course. Stockwin became a correspondent for the SCMP
during the Hong Kong negotiations, and made something of a local
name for himself as a spokesman for the "no surrender" school. I
think it is fair to say that his views are not widely respected in
Hong Kong. He has been described privately by one senior HKG
official as a "latter-day liberal imperialist".
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