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LETTER FROM LORD SHARP: THE EURASIAN OR ANGLO-CHINESE
COMMUNITY IN HONG KONG
1.
I submit a draft letter from you to Lord Sharp.
2. A copy of the Ministerial reply to Mr Ho is also
attached. This letter was based on a draft supplied by the
Home Office. It was not submitted through me, or cleared
with me.
On reading it, I think it was an error to lump the
Eurasian or Anglo-Chinese community together with the non
Chinese ethnic minorities in Hong Kong. The two groups seem to me to be quite distinct.
3.
Accordingly, I have sought in the draft for you to send
to finesse the point, while making use of the general assurance which Ministers have given in Parliament in respect to the non ethnic Chinese. I have also asked
Mr Morris to revert to the Home Office on the question of
the distinction between Anglo-Chinese and non ethnic
Chinese.
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