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1. All our visitors from Hong Kong (both official and unofficial) tell us of the apprehension with which Chinese opinion in Hong Kong regards the proposed constitutional changes or, more exactly, that part of the changes (the most important part) which involves the establishment of a Municipal Council, the majority of whose members is to be directly elected.

This apprehension is not the apprehension of the political reactionary. The point is that Hong Kong has no politics or political parties of its own. Its only politics and its only political parties are those of China. Those who fear the holding of elections for the Municipal Council fear them because they will give power, not to a Hong Kong political party whose members happen to be Chinese, but to a Chinese political party - i.e. a party which takes its orders from China.

2. At (8) is a note briefly setting out what the

proposals