Hong Kong
For a proper consideration of the problem of East
Asia's requirements for efficient public administration
it will be well to note the "sui generis" nature of the
Colony of Hong Kong. The Atlantic Charter agrees to
the restoration of sovereign rights and self-government
to all who have been forcibly derived of these. But
for half a century before this had been enunciated
India and Burma and eylon had begun to build up
autochthonous civil services on a gradually expanding
acalo; and the final inevitable stage of Dominion
status or complete independence has presumably been
easy enough from the point of view of administrative
efficiency.
Whatever the ethics of the seizure in 1841 of
the barren island of Hong Kong, where the inordinate
restraints on trade practised at Canton could be
Overcome and where, in the words of the Treaty,
'ships could be careened and merchandise stored",
the words of the Charter are clearly per B@
inapplicable.
or was the principle affected when,
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