after Hsueh Ping comes out of prison in Hong
Kong is a case in point.
We did not attempt to mute publicity
about Johnston and the Shanghai community
because the Simon Carves team were in China.
The terms of the statement on Johnston were
agreed with the Chartered Bank who wanted to
try and find out whether there were was any
connection between Johnston's arrest and the
affair with the Bank of China in Singapore.
The situation is still obscure and depending
on developments it might be advisable to give
more publicity to the case. For the moment
however we are going along with the Bank's
request that pressure be kept up mainly through
the diplomatic channel.
3. There is a steady interest in detained
It is
British subjects in the British press but
recently it has inevitably taken a back seat in
face of Czechoslovakia, Biafra and/soon.
regrettable but inevitable, that the press both here and abroad have become to some extent become
mal to Chinese bad behaviour.
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There are
therefore limits to the aged which their
interest can be engaged.
As regards the foreign
press we are continuing to do what we can to
place pieces in newspapers both in Europe and
Afro Asian countries. As we found when the
question of publicity for the British Mission
was examined last year there are some
difficulties in getting material accepted in
those countries such as Pakistan, Cambodia,
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other examples B "man's
inhumanity to
man".
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