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Hong Kong Department
19 May 1988
PS/Lord Glenarthur
Mr Gillmore
Mr McLaren
Mr Meyer, News Department
Private Secretary
SECRETARY OF STATE'S VISIT TO HONG KONG: SPEECH
(HKB 040/4)
1. Please refer to Mr Galsworthy's minute of 16 May.
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2. I submit a revised version of the speech. It follows the outline
suggested by the Secretary of State, salvaging relevant parts of my
original text.
3.
I have, as suggested, put it into a longer and broader perspective.
But the immediate audience for the speech will be local community
personalities (predominantly Hong Kong Chinese): and the wider audience will be the Hong Kong media. They are intensely parochial. While it is obviously right that they should be encouraged to look at developments in
a somewhat wider perspective, this has to be done with some care.
Otherwise
we run the risk of being accused of diplomatic and intellectual over-cleverness
at the expense of little Hong Kong.
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