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DRAFT. s.0. LETTER
MISS ELIZABETH ALLEN,
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CIVIL
LIBERTIES.
Fermt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. S.
Minister of State
Secretary of State
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Mr. Creech Jones has asked me to write
to you in reply to your letter of the 7th
July, 1949, about the recently enacted Hong Kong
Societies Ordinance.
This Ordinance was introduced because
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necessary at this time, when the state
of the world is gravely unsettled and the main orderly life
tenance of law and order in Hong Kong is likely
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dustindangered by outside influence that there
quench should be a record of all societies in the Colony Shis
to the Lamatory of fear to be normal pontical presence and a knowledge of their objects combined with
of the Ordnance enhanced powere of control. Th provision which
renders unlawful those local societies affiliated
or connected with, any political organisation or
group outside the Colony reflects the experience
of the present day world where, in more than one
country, it has been found that peace and order
have been violated or endangered through the
activities of organisations of a political nature
which are not domestic in character and origin
but are outposts, for foreign political manoeuvre and interference. (Magland that in Hong Kong
Life in societies with political
I may add that, provided there is ne affiliations miside which are jumenpel. organisation or activity in the Colony,
Andividuals in Hong Kong are not debarred from
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