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FOREIGN OFFICE TO PEKING
10. 434 1 JUNE 1967 (F.)
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ADDRESSED TO PEKING TELEGRAM NUMBER 434 OF 1 JUNE 1967
REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO HONG KONG, WASHINGTON.
THE FIRST SECRETARY OF THE CHINESE OFFICE, WU HSIN-AN, CALLED ON BOLLAND ON 1 JUNE AT HIS OWN REQUEST TO EXPRESS INDIGNATION AT A NUMBER OF THREATENING LETTERS AND TELEPHONE CALLS WHICH HAD BEEN RECEIVED BY THE CHINESE OFFICE. HE PRODUCED TWO ABUSIVE LETTERS (ONE CONTAINING THREE EMPTY SHELL CASES) AS EVIDENCE AND DEMANDED THAT HMG SHOULD PROTECT THE OFFICE AND MEMBERS OF THE MISSION.
2. BOLLAND SAID THAT IT WAS HMG'S POLICY TO AFFORD FULL
PROTECTION TO THE CHINESE MISSION SO THAT THEY COULD CARRY OUT THEIR NORMAL DIPLOMATIC FUNCTIONS. IN A FREE COUNTRY HMG HAD NO CONTROL OVER THE WRITERS OF LETTERS OR MAKERS OF TELEPHONE CALLS. THESE WERE PRESUMABLY THE UNDERSTANDABLE. RESPONSE.BY THE BRITISH PEOPLE TO THE TREATMENT OF OUR DIPLOMATS IN CHINA. SINCE WE HERE WERE PREPARED TO GIVE FULL PROTECTION TO CHINESE DIPLOMATS WE EXPECTED
THAT THE CHINESE WOULD DO THE SAME IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
3. WU HSIN-AN CLAIMED THAT REFERENCES TO DEMONSTRATIONS IN CHINA. WAS QUOTE TURNING FACTS ON THEIR HEAD UNQUOTE SINCE THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL THESE PROBLEMS WAS THE SUPPRESSION OF CHINESE COMPATRIOTS IN HONG KONG. HE QUOTED MAO ON THE FATE IN STORE FOR ALL IMPERIALISTS. BOLLAND CATEGORICALLY DENIED THE ALLEGATIONS ABOUT QUOTE FASCIST ATROCITIES UNQUOTE AND ENDED THE CONVERSATION.
4. WU HSIN-AN WAS PERSONALLY POLITE BEFORE AND AFTER THE INTERVIEW ALTHOUGH HE MANAGED TO WORK HIMSELF INTO A LATHER, DURING THE DISCUSSION.
5. UNLESS THE CHINESE GIVE THIS INTERVIEW ANY PUBLICITY WE DO.
NOT REPEAT NOT INTEND TO DO SO.
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