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EXPANSION OF HONG KONG BROADCAST ING
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Memorandum.
RM
The question of installing a high-power
medium wave broadcasting station in Hong Long
has been discussed between Mr. Dening and
Mr. Paskin and officials of the Foreign and
Colonial offices. The following are their
agreed views:-
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It can be taken as certain that all means
of communicating objective information on
international affairs to the Chinese people' will
be progressively eliminated by the Chinese
Communist Administration. This process has
atfected
already included Chinese newspapers in the
area administered by the Communists and some
European newspapers: it will be extended to
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include virtually all the information activities
open
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hitherto possible to H.M. Missions in China and
to all information agencies, official or un-
official, which have hitherto served the country.
The Communists have stated openly their
intentions of "not needing" the Western Powers;
they have declared open hostility to "imperial-
ism" and there is no reason to suppose that
their attitude to British trading communities
will differ substantially from that which has
developed in Eastern Europe and which has
resulted in the progressive exclusion of direct
British trading interests and the expropriation
of the British capital enterprises. The proceßB
will be more or less lengthy, but is intended
to follow,mutatis mutandis, the same course as
that determined by Moscow in Eastern Europe.
3. The erection of a high-power medium'wave
transmitter in Hong Kong might be taken as
/ "provocative"
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