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26th February 1968
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Deartu Daiw
Thank you very much for your letter of 3th Feuruary. I apologise for the delay in replying, but I have had a very careful investigation made into the circumstances of the item, transmitted on the 9th January in "24 hours", of which you wrote.
Let me start of thanking you for your assistance to the BBC since you have been dovernor. In the last few years, as you know, the BBC Indeed I think it has given a kreat deal of attention to long; Kong.
can be said to be largely through television that the people of this country understand the problems and achievements of nong Kong much better than before. We have all been given a vivid idea of your situation and the complexities of life in Hong Kong.
I am particular, sorry therefore that you have felt that there has
On the whole been cause on this occasio.. to take exception to this item. it told a positive story about the achievements of Hong Kong in 1967 and its attitude to 1965 was upeful and optimistic. The item ended with Davies saving:
"No, I'm very far from gloomy. Arter we've come through 167 in which or tra- waich dominates us, our economic co-operation. with Mina is ab.olutely essential to the nature of Hong Kong, its whole raison d'etre, and during that year China has been
tting politics to the fore, 2. aurin back from bra anurontation with mong aoh take it over, ane an' want to harm it to in my mind constitutes the best guarani e
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