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PS/Lord Caithness
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Hong Kong Department
DATE:
11 October 1990
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Cc:
Mr McLaren
(Meland Coulbouss
CIVIL LIBERTIES IN HONG KONG
Problem
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RECEIVED IN EE
17 OCT1920
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A 1. A further letter from Mr Bowen Wells MP to Lord
Caithness about the loudspeaker prosecutions.
Recommendation
I submit a draft reply, designed to draw this
correspondence to a close.
Background
3.
This is the fourth letter from Mr Bowen Wells on this
subject. The previous correspondence (Lord Caithness' letter of 17 September; Mr Wells' letters of 25 June, DEF 9 July, and 14 August; Mrs Chalker's letter of 6 August and
Mr Maude's letter of 29 June) is attached.
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4. I think that Mr Bowen Wells has over-reacted to the
contents of Lord Caithness' letter of 17 September. By no
stretch of the imagination could paragraph three of that letter be described as a "lecture". Nor is there anything
in the tone to which one could reasonably take exception. By contrast, Mr Bowen Wells' tone, both in this letter and in earlier correspondence, leaves something to be desired.
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