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logical for the Hong Kong authorities to deal
with all Communist activists, irrespective of
their nationality, under the same law and
procedures.
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In any
Cause
cannot accept that the
By he regardo paragraph 5 of the same letter procedures are so very different". from Mr. Litton, All persons
detained under
Regulation 31 have been told of the reasons for
their detention.
They have likewise been told
of their right to make objections against their
That The
detention to the Committee of Review set up
under the regulations for this purpose.
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༡ Then are exentially The procedures land of own in all Colonial emergency legislation providing for the power of detention. So
Committee admittedly is and must be an
advisory body, as is the Tribunal set up under
the Deportation and Detention Regulations
since it is the Governor who is ultimately
and Parlament responsible to the Secretary of State for the
internal security of Hong Kong, The whole
purpose of emergency regulations is to deal
with persons whose aim it is to undermine that
security and who, as Mr. Litton puts it, are
"suspected of activities subversive to the
State". As soon as any danger of such persons
achieving their object has passed, the
regulations will cease to operate.
B2. I fully understand the point of principle
that Mr. Litton has raised, but I am entirely
satisfied that there are more than adequate
safeguards against any possibility of emergency
regulations being used as an instrument of
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