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to the problem of what line should be taken. Mr. Whitley

has set out the issues in the draft paper attached. Briefly,

the issue is that ifMr. Fletcher and his colleagues presi

Ministers further it will be necessary to decide whether

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to maintain the fiction that developments are purely for the

benefit of internal broadcasting in Hong Kong,which will

provoke a criticism that.H.M.G. should use Hong Kong to

provide a broadcasting service to 6ommunist China, or whether

to admit that the latter is in fact the object of increasing

the power of the local broadcasting station. A further complication

is the part being played by the Foreign Office in this matter.

I have spoken to Mr. Murray of the Foreign Office about

bes Whiskey's this,and he and I feel that it would be better to discuss/paper interdepartmentally at the Working Party, with the object of

making recommendations about the line to be adopted for discussion

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by Ministers at a future meeting of the C.I.P.. I this

course is preferable to putting the whole matter immediately

before the C. I. P. Committee.

? So proceed.

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