IV.
V.
-6-
the Poking domestic line and Mao Tse Tung's foreign policy; the former was approved and the latter criticised. Mr. Cable added that the Overseas Chinese in Indonesia were a small minority amid a hostile population and consequently their attitude would always be determined by the strength of the Chinese Government and its ability to protect them.
17.
It was agreed that a soparate paper should be prepared on the question of treatment of the Overseas Chinese generally for submission to the Bukit Serone Conference. (See paragraph 46 below.)
18.
On paragraph 9 there was discussion whether the administering leaders of the terri- torics of South East Asia were sufficiently aware of the undiminished hostility of Moscow to nationalist leaders, and it was agreed that there was more to be done to bring this home.
19.
On paragraph 11 it was accepted that the question of passing background information and hard facts to mombers of foreign governments was one for local decision on the merits of each case.
Local application of Foreign Office/Colonial Office Guidance Paper reference PR.11/183/G.
20.
Mr. Rayner said that so far as the Regional Information Office was concerned, the application of the paper was that it was the background of everything that was done, and all incoming material was considered for use in the light of the directive, and all production kept within the framework of it.
21.
Mr. F.R.H. Murray undertook to supply an increasing amount of material for local application on Communism and Islam, in response to demands from a number of posts.
Positive Publicity.
(a) Frojection of the United Kingdom in Colonial
territories in South East Asia
22.
Mr. Thomson (Singapore) said that he had not nearly enough material on the straight projection of Britain, which he regarded as of vital importance. He felt that the Central Office of Information might be much more imaginative in putting Britain across. Mr. Malcolm agroed that this was a very large and difficult issue, and that he had better try to examine it individually with the Colonial representatives, oven though he himself had no mandate from the Colonial Office to do so.
23.
Mr. Rayner said that from the Regional Information Office point of view this was a
/matter of....
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.