布政司署
香港下亞畢道
CONFIDENTIAL
DIE
RECEIVED IN VÄGibiyi
12 FEB 1987
* OUR REF.:
* YOUR REF.:
LEAR
C. E. Leeks, Esq.,
HKD,
FCO
18
GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
2
15th January 1987
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Dear Clinton
5
Public Meeting in Support of the Democracy
in China Campaign
China
Your tel. no.
55.
The demonstration duly took place on 12 January. It was poorly attended and press coverage was slight.
I did not, as you suggested, inform NCNA in advance. On balance I thought that we should avoid doing this unless we had good reason to expect serious trouble or embarrassment, for fear of setting a precedent for tipping them off about any public meetings that might affect their interests in some way.
As I later discovered, the organizers had in fact invited NCNA to join in, even to provide a speaker. NCNA did not reply.
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Yours
Bob
(R. N. Peirce)
Deputy Political Adviser
C.C.
Miss P. Major, Peking
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