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the side not intended for it. That this is already becoming impossible is illustrated by the impasse referred to in paragraph 8. For the reasons indicated in paragraph 9 it seems unlikely that Members would respond casily to an invitation to refrain from pressing their demand for a powerful broadcasting service to China from Hong Kong, unless they wore taken fully into the Government's confidence and convinced that it is essential that any broadcasting service from Hong Kong to China must have a reasonably plausible justification other than its real purpose. Once this is accepted it follows that neither a short-wave, nor a high-power medium-wave, service can be established in Hong Kong for that purpose, and that the present project represents the most that can be done as an immediate measure to supplement the short-wave broadcasts from Coylon and Malaya, If it were not considered essential to maintain a fictitious justification for a service to China from Hong Kong, it would then be necessary to convince the persons concerned that contentions (a) and (b) in paragraph 10 are invalid.
Colonial Office.
S.W.1.
27th May, 1949.
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