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I must stress the point that the Governor
made in the penultimate paragraph of his letter
about how much there is at stake in Hong Kong
at the present time. Situated as the Colony
but
is on the borders of China, a powerful and
unfriendly neighbour, the Colony's confidence
in its own continuing existence is vital,
because of the Colony's exposed position that
confidence is inevitably a somewhat delicate
plant. It depends substantially on the
knowledge that we in this country will support
and sustain the Colony. I and my Ministerial
colleagues have been at pains in recent months
to stress that H.M. Government will do just this.
It does not help that from this country there
has issued from the press and other mass
communication media, a steady volume of ill-
informed critical comment and misrepresentation
of events and conditions in the Colony which
is interpreted locally as evidence, not merely
of a lack of sympathy or understanding here,
but of a lack of support.
I have heard it said
in Hong Kong that they sometimes wonder who and
where their enemies are!
views.
I have mentioned that others share my
Indeed, I understand that certain of
your officials have recently had a meeting with
members of the Committee of the Hong Kong
Association at which the latter made represen-
tations on this very subject. I trust that
the combined effect of the Governor's letter, the representations referred to above and
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