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What was the interval of time between your receiving this offer and
making the report to me?
As soon as I told him
Adam
to use a slang phrase "nothing doing" I walked
into your office and reported to you.
Did I take any action?
You did.
Q. What?
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You black listed him?
What did that consist of?
Adding his name to a list which appears near the main doorway.
In full view of the public?
Yes.
From that time have you, or so far as you know, anybody else in the
office been approached with a view to having that name removed?
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Yes.
Who?
I cannot remember exactly.
I may say I did not know that anybody had been approached.
Someone mentioned it to me, I intended to report it to you at the time
then it slipped my mind and I did not recall it till you now raised the
question a second ago.
Journal?
Q. You mentioned you were formerly editor of the Far Eastern Economic
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Yes, it was formerly the Far Eastern Economic & Commerical Journal and at
the beginning of last year I found the name too cumbersome and changed
it to Far Eastern Journal.
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When did the last issue appear under your editorship?
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It appeared about 10 days before I joined the Immigration Office.
After you had joined the Immigration Office I think you and I had a con-
versation on the subject of the propriety of your continuing to act as
Etant Editor of the Journal?
A, Quite right; and as a result, on your instructions, I gave it up entirely.
The Journal is no longer being published.
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I supplied you with a copy of the Gener. 1 Order bearing on the point?
Yes.
In any of your capacities whether as a journalist, as a public man in any
sense or as a member of my department do you think you have incurred the
enmity of any person?
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