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54463/49

€. O.

Radford 25/7/49.

Mr.

Mr.

Wallace 28/7/49.

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Mr. Watom

Mr.....

Mr.

Parly. U.S. S.

Minister of State

Secretary of State

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DRAFT. s.0. LETTER

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MISS ELIZABETH ALLEN,

NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CIVIL

LIBERTIES.

I have shocked with the Depa that the law in un anda ting

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sefere alt und so cutite, That is me pousin for

exemption,

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FURTHER ACTION.

For registyskon

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سقا الله

54463/19

Dear The A

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

ed necessary at this time, when the state The East of the world is gravely unsettled and the main-

han be

orderly life tenance of law and order in Hong Kong is likely

(it is that death necessary to be endangered by outside influences that there

disturba

This

quenstig should be a record of all societies in the Colony to the Lematon of flace to be nomad pontiuse prudence and a knowledge of their objects combined with

(of the Ordnanet enhanced powers of controž. The provisión/which

renders unlawful those local societies affiliated

Pfilia

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. (Mayland that Kim Hong Kong

at in socates with political

I may add that, provided there is ne offituding mside of the hich

which are imbuful organisation or activity in the Coloný,

Individuals in Hong Kong are not debarred from

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