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To. Ralph Rilway, F.O,
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w/c 105-comps - 24/7/49
According to the minutes of the best ELP (the meeting, Unless the Foreign Secretary disagrees with the C1.P (Hee's
decision to the project for a Hong Kong bort. broadcasting service for
is to be dropped (107).
Chuia
One proviso Shold, however, be noted. Broadcast
Relay Service (Overseas) And
company whose Subsidiary conducts the Hong Kong
wired broadcasting service of this project
in General
the reflies
told me
the parent
having learnt
terms
from
P.Qs and
last week that they word
like to propose that they should operate a Commercial broadcasting Service to China
Suggested that
They
In the feculiar liveomstances of the flace a commucial service where an official one
ве
Services.
the es
would not.
Might
Succeed There would
time available for official information
The basis of the programme would be Chinese programme of the Hong Kong For this reason, and also
existing Rediffusion Service.
because
the company ha
in the Rediffusion service, has a
hiterest in
Cost to H.M. Govt
1
having fust Souk £250,000
large fuiaulial the Colony's future Security, the
be virtually nothing.
hold
this project would certainly recessitate the transfer of
the Polony's domestic broadcasting service to the Company, Suice the service to
would still have to be ostensibly the domestic service 'Spitting over'.
Chuia
reasons
Given in
I consiou that
minute
For the
my
of 1/7/49, therefore, it would be withary and inimicable to the Colonial Office's folicy. I
did not think, however, that it loould have
it would have been effective
escu
been right
most have been doubtful
which
to try to stifle