LORD GLENARTHUR
HONG KONG
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INT
TODAY 11 JAN 1989
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INTERVIEVER:
But if of the number of Civil Servants I think only 8 have
been given this, this suggests that you do not think very highly of
them?
LORD GLENARTHUR:
To, we think very highly of the Civil Servants of course,
The important thing is to look at the conditions that apply when we
look at that particular section of the British Tationality Act.
Every case, as I have said, is looked at on its merits.
INTERVIEVER:
One final and quite impossible question to answer I know, but
is there a danger that once Hong Kong gets its autonomy the
Government in China will alter its view of the nature of the Colony?
LORD GLENARTHUR:
I have every confidence that, and this is brought out by many
people that we have talked to in China, that they in China realise
the enormous benefit that Hong Kong can be to them. Hong Kong has
got a reputation which indeed the Chinese authorities in many cases
are copying with their special economic zones up and down the coast.