CO129-595-1 Anti-British feeling in China- memorandum by J V Braga 15-2-1946 - 15-8-1946 — Page 33

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homes should be explained; and

(v)

Soue aspects of Chinese culture.

I would also suggest, with a view to enhancing its value

and avoiding the possibility of exception being taken by Chinese

people on any point in the subject matter of the pamphlet, that

subject/matter

the Chinese anlassador in London be approached to contribute a

Foreword.

2.

That an appeal be la moned through the Foreign Secre-

tary) to the directors of British banks, large hongs', shipping

and insurance companies, "Shell House", British-American Tobacco

Coy, and similar large concerns operating in Hong Kong and in China,

the as well as the directors and departmental heads of/Civil Service, and

the public utility and dock companies, in Hong Kong, requesting

them, in the interests of friendly relations between Britain and

China,-

(2) To exercise more care then in the past in the selection of

British men and women for posts in which there is much

contact with the Chinese;

(ii)

(iii)

To stress to British employees and civil servants the value

in the British cause of their commanding the respect and

earning the esteem of the Chinese;

To deal strictly with inexcusable cases of gross incivility

on the part of British people to the Chinese, particularly

in Government Departments in Hong Kong;

3. That a department for Fritish propaganda be created in

informatime (?

Hong Kong directly responsible to the Vinistry of Propaganda “(?) in

England and in closo touch with the Hong Kong Government and the

British Embassy at Chungking, and that in this department an officer

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