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Freely as You with upon
terms of which can, I think, be settled fairly
quickly in consultation with you, if
constitutional development in Hong Kong is to
take the course recommended in your despatch
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No.145. If, however, you/recommend, as the result of this telegram, that it should take
the form of broadening the basis of unofficial
representation on the Central Government and
that the project for a Municipality should be
abandoned, the terms of the statement will
require some consideration. The following
draft has been prepared to meet that
eventuality. I should be grateful if you
would include your views on it in your reply If you decide to revise your original
recommendations for constitutional development, The draft statement, which is in the form of
a reply to a Parliamentary Question, is-as-
follows.
Begins:
"On the 1st May my predecessor announced
in this House that His Majesty's Government
had had under consideration the means by
which in Hong Kong, as elsewhere in the
Colonial Empire, the inhabitants of the
territory can be given a fuller and more
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responsible share in the management of their
own affairs. He went on to say that it was
thought that one possible method of achieving
this end would be by handing over certain
functions of internal administration to a
Municipal Council constituted on a fully
representative basis but that the Governor had been asked to thoroughly/examine these
important issues in consultation with the
representations of all sections of the
community in Hong Kong. Since that time
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