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PEKING
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DEDIP
PEKING
HONG KONG (PERSONAL FOR
PODITICAL ADVISER)
HONGKONG
(PERSONAL FOR
POLITICAL ADVI-
SER)
Files. P.U.S. Sir C. Crowe Sir D. Allen Mr. Wilkinson
F.E.D. Personnel Dept.
From Acting Permanent Under-Secretary.
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Your tel. No. 731: Publicity.
In the light of this most welcome development,.
the problems of press and publicly.
we have been considering how you might handle the
have in mindl
press after leaving China. We are arranging a
Lo you
televised interview/in London, and we shall be consulting you later about the line you might take.
remarks We should prefer therefore that your main ammunition
be reserved for your return to this country and that
as little as possible be said to the press in Hong Kong. However, you will certainly be expected to make some statement there, and you have authority
at your discretion to give a press interview.
2.
Since the Chinese decision to grant you an
exit visa must be regarded as a gesture towards
easing relations and since the Governor of Hong
Kong has been asked to consider matching it by
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