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/5 ́ ́ June, 1922
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Harold Begbie, Esq.
Garden Court
Swanage
MINUTE.
Mr. Mar sh
Mr.
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Mr.
Mr. Davis.
Sir G. Grindle.
Sir H. Read.
Bir J. Mastërton Smith,
Mr. Food.
Mr. Churchill.
Dear Mr.Begbie,
2
Mr.Churchill desires me to thank
you for your letter of May 30th, and to
offer the following observations on the
memorandum you enclosed, so far as it
relates to the conduct of the Governor.
The first four paragraphs are
intended to throw doubt upon Mr.Chamberlain's
statement that Mrs.Haslewood was conducting
her campaign in terms which gave much
annoyance to the Chinese community. This
doubt can hardly be maintained in the face
of Mrs.Haslewood's own words in an interview
reported in the Methodist Times of July 14th
1921: "The letter which I wrote to the
Press and the campaign which I then began
roused a fierce opposition. At once
there was an official defence of the system
which was not denied but justified. I am
sorry to say that among those who rạnged
themselves in defence of the Chinese system
was a prominent missionary."
3 The Governor wrote as follows
citid in the report which Mr.Chamberlain quoted;
"That such terms ('hideous stain', * infamous
system' 'sordid and shameful facts') should
cause annoyance in a community in which the
keeping of mui taai is widespread was
only to be expected that it did so was ·
a matter of notoriety.
Further the
Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs reported
at