TNAG-0070-FCO40-106-Disturbances-in-Hong-Kong-propaganda-1968 — Page 90

Registry No.

DRAFT s/o Letter

Type 1 +

From

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

To:-

Top Secret.

-Seeret.

X

Confidential.

X

P. C. M. Sedgwick, Esq., CMG, Hong Kong Government Office, 54, Pall Mall, S.W.1.

Telephone No. & Ext.

-Restricted:

Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence

Hola Ober

Ныл

Ed. (3746)

NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

Department

50

I am replying to your letter of 16 November with

which you enclosed a copy of the paper produced by the

Overseas Public Relations Coordination Committee in

Hong Kong on steps to maintain overseas confidence in the

Colony.

From our study of the paper it seems to us that it is

intended to set out Hong Kong's own domestic arrangements

to project the Colony's image overseas. We have reached

this conclusion because nowhere does the paper mention what

part the United Kingdom information effort is to be asked

to play. It does, however, refer in paragraph 5 to the

use of various British Missions overseas as "agencies

engaged in retaining, repairing and fostering overseas

confidence" in Hong Kong. But this appears to be a

reference to an already existing situation.

Rivett-Carnac is to return here from Hong Kong

later this month and he will doubtless be able to clarify

the above points.

I understand that the reason why China is not

mentioned in paragraphs 5 or 6 of the paper is because

that country is regarded as requiring separate and special

treatment.

On a matter of minor detail, should not the

reference in paragraph 4(g) be to paragraph 5?

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