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Tuesday, February 13, 1973

response of the public must be helped and canalised along safe lines, and expanded and localised and systematised in many ways, and this is what will be done. It was Edmund Burke, 200 years ago, who said 'If evil is to prevail, all that is necessary is that good men should do nothing'. I am confident that in Hong Kong good men can be relied on to do a great deal: I am confident that together we shall succeed."