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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN-SUPPLEMENT
ISSUED BY GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES BEACONSFIELD HOUSE, HONG KONG TEL. 5-233191
Wednesday, July 16, 1980
FOLLOWING IS A SPEECH BY MR DENIS BRAY, HONG KONG COMMISSIONER, AT THE DIPLOMATIC AND COMMONWEALTH WRITERS ASSOCI.TION LUNCH,
LONDON, ON TUESDAY, JULY 15.
Hong Kong is an odd place. It has an odd sort of economy but it
works. It has an odd mixture of people: they work too. And the government
has an almost impossible job: perhaps that is why we do so little.
Most governments seem to have quite enough of a job keeping their
own people happy but the Hong Kong Government not only has to do that but
keep London and Peking happy at the same time.
Hong Kong rests on a tripod of consents the consent of its own
people, of London and of Peking.
Fascinating as it is, the subject of retaining an internal consensus --
the first leg of the tripod of consents is probably not as interesting to you
as our relationships with our masters in Britain or the giant along-side
which
We
live.
Of course, we gain enormous benefit from the relationship with
Britain. We could not exist without political support from Britain.
/But all
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