C+3 Registry No. HWB. 14/02
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Your telegram No.1328: Communist Press.
We
We have discussed with the Foreign Office at official
level your proposal to promulgate emergency regulations to
deal with the production of "mosquito broad sheets".
are all agreed that these must be stopped if at all
possible, but feel that we must put the matter to Ministers.
This we can do quite quickly but would first like your
reactions on the following points.
2. There seem to be two choices open to us:-
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(a) to introduce emergency regulations giving
powers to deal only with the "broad sheets";
(b) to introduce comprehensive emergency regulations
giving full powers to deal with the Press
generally.
The taking of any powers to deal with the Press will,
it is thought, produce a reaction in Peking (although we
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