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Transcript of Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on the implementation of the Joint Declaration in London on March 22. 1955
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Governor of Hong Kong, Sir David Wilson
DAVID HOWELL:
Sir David could I
You
YOU
are
to memorandum valuable to use
the
Committee which has been
for coming from a
that long way away which we much appreciate and realise what a strain is, but We
grateful for the opportunity to talk with are extremely to share your thoughts on some aspects of Hong Kong of which
submitted has Government The Hong Kong the Governor.
helpful and extremely
2
Governor:
2
day
back which the
both
inviting me to give evidence on the first of your inquiry. On the political map, perhaps. it's right to go
little bit into history in Hong Kong because the way in political system has evolved is something rather dependent
I think it's history and on Hong Kong's geographical position.
Hong 15
Kong Say deliberately trying
itself
politics. concentrating above all on survival. It came out of the Second
to
that
immediate the
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to
Bost-war
away
years. from
It
World hes
Wer with a population of something like 600.000 only, and it now
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be
elections
a population almost ten times that amount. Many of the people who came
Hony Korg vera conting away from political turmoil An
a reeling even over the succeeding years into the 1960's there was
some
the Hong Kong that Hong Kong should try to isolate itself from
China during the political currents that were going on nearby in
groupings has Cultural Revolution. So the development of political
in a comparable been slower in
Hong Kong than it would have been territory anywhere else. The earliest political grouping tended to either those which were concerned with working towards the
there was On the Urban Council. There was the Civic Association and
concentrating the Reform Club. And then there were groups which were -on particular issues. There was. for instance. the People's Council on
and Council. Public
the Christian Industrial Housing Policy.
particular objectives. Society for Community organisation. They had
recently. groups have been concentrating on, in particular.. Basic Law, and have formed into particular groups with views on Basic Law. There are different groups associated with the
groups Consultative Committee. for instance. And then there have been
of the political been promoting a more rapid evolution
rapid for which have
more Hong
been Dressing Kong.
in There are a whole number of these different groups now
to the Committee when it goes Hong
Kong. I very much hope that Kong will have a chance co meet representatives of all these groups so what wishes they that YOU would be able to form your own views on have. and what sort of policies they wish to see Hong Kong aspires.
More
which have
in Dystem democracy.
they
the
the
Basic Law
Hong
Now.
is
And
at
helpful. That's very CHAIRMAN:
Thank you very much indeed. The Joint Declaration of 1984.is being implemented, and indeed. it that
process that we want to try and understand and examine.
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