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Our telegram No. 1362 Mr. Anthony Grey
The continued detention of f. Anthony Grey is causing increasing concern in this country and there is likely to be mounting criticism of the ineffective-
This ness of our efforts to secure his release.
criticism. may well become sharper if the conditions of movement of our Mission in Peking are seen to have
returned to normal.
. Gerald Long has formally raised with the Foreign Secretary the question of an
act of clemency in Hong Kong. Even if Long has to be informed that an act of clemency is for the
present at any rate still out of the question, we
shall no doubt hear more of this.
2. When the matter was discussed with you here last May, there was general agreement that the minimum price which the Chinese were likely to exact for M. Grey was the release in Hong Kong of Hsueh and Lo; but that they might initially try to insist on the release of all communist newspaper workers now in
prison. Both you and we saw objection to the premature release of these persons, not merely because of the juridical difficulties, but because of the boost this would give to local communist morale and
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