Saving No. 135 Top Secret of the 13th October.
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In the first place, you will see that the U.S.I. S. is
causing embarrassment by distributing magazines and
pamphlets in Chinese not only locally but in China,
that Messrs. Goodfriend and Hudson have made it clear that
the U.S. I. S. wish to use Hong Kong as a base for further
distribution of such material into China. This does not
accord with the spirit of the 0.A.G.'s proviso that the
activities of the U.S. I. S. in Hong Kong should be confined
to the publicising of American Institutions and the
exposition of American policy by overt means. It looks to
us as though the American authorities still do not
appreciate the peculiarly delicate position of Hong Kong,
in spite of the explanations given to them by you last
May and we should be grateful if you would explain to
them again that it is not our policy that Hong Kong should
be used as a base for propaganda to China and that
categorical instructions to this effect should be given
again to the U.S.I.S. in Hong Kong. In passing, you will
no doubt note from paragraph 5 of the saving that
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Mr. Hudson, the Director of the U.S.I.S., could on
occasion behave with more tact. I do not want to press
this point, since the 0.A.G. has already taken it up with
the Consul General, but it does perhaps throw additional
light on the causes of this unsatisfactory situation.
Secondly, it would appear from paragraph 1 of the
0.A.G. 's saving that the U.S.I.S. China Office retains a
skeleton organization in Hong Kong. For the reasons given
in my last paragraph we consider that the maintenance of
this section in Hong Kong is most undesirable and I regret
that I must press you to indicate to the Americans that
the members of this organization should be withdrawn from
as soon as possibles
Hong Kong since it is obvious that they are superfluous
for the purpose of publicising American institutions in
that territory.
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