that the wishes of the Unofficials would be met
and that by being given enough rope they would probably hang themselves,
colony have taken the measure
a man like M?
3. they would hitehead: they know perfectly well that he is a
or rather the sensible min
among them would hang M. Whitehead. Thus Crate would be still more likely to be
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effected. If
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the outside residents, mind men like mil
in the colony.
Jackson of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank. M "Thorburn, also a banker a one
The recent Treasury defalcations, shrewd headed men
of business who have no animus against the colonial
government but rather the reverse.
There are
however objections to this course,
which
seem to me to outweigh the advantages. They are
(1) Such a commission. Whether composed of officials
alone or of unofficials and outsiders combined be. I think I am
rather right in saying, anomaly after a prolonged contest in the Council it would be a very inconvenient precedent for future and other Colonies.
2. It would look like unconditional surrender to M
Whitehead, and I believe that such a course would lessen confidence in the Colonial office, which is not very implicit already. For the outside public in the
Fu/9/10 There is a time to concede of a time not to concede
On the whole it seems to me that further concession would be misunderstood
The second course is
Commission from
M. Johnson gives
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(a) expense
to
appoint
a Commissioner or
colony,
outside the
two objections
to this course
A great and undoubted objection..
(G) That it will hardly satisfy M. Whitehead
This objection does not. I think,
hold water.
M: Whitehead says in his letter of 25 July (End-3
I agree on the Whole with His Excellency
that the best possible Commission would be "one consisting entirely of persons unconnected with
the colony.
it is held, which I do not hold, that a further enquiry into the circumstances of the colony
there can it seems
is
to me
hardly be two
to obtain
Enquiry required. opinions about the matter. For the best way an entrusted report and recommendations is to
and Commissioners from appoint a Commissioner or Commissioners