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was not much doubt that great numbers of people there
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would favour Hong Kong remaining under non-Chinese
administration.
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In view of the essential importance of outside Powers
doing what they could to contribute to China's orderly development and peaceful conditions in the country, Bu could we afford to encourage the sort of opinion
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of No. 39- It is also referred to in the last chut pointed out in the same paragraph that Britiain is associated in the Chinese mind with questions of
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commerce rather than culture.
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should be no going back on the purpose of the founder of
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interests as well as commercial H Hong Kong were indeed a great port of entry and exit for China, open to the commerce of all the world, and China ben^fited thereby, Sir Edward could not see how we could restrict the flow to trade and commerce and mercantile purpose.
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maintain and develop Hong Kong University on the lines
originally intended.
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pality developing before the war, and Sir Edward could suppose that a form of municipal government with
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