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Communist families
except perhaps in a few
areas where other facilities may be inadequate
(and it is present policy to plug any such gaps
as a matter of priority): inferior educational
standards in Communist curricular could probably
be relied upon to deter most non-Communists from Nevertheless sending their children to these schools, even if it is considered dessable to try to contain the spread of the free facilities were offered. Communist educational effort.
15.
B
The Governor also informed us in July that
the drafting of amendments to the Education
Ordinance was proceeding slowly although it was
not an easy matter. It would be helpful to find
out how this exercise is progressing and what
progress is being made generally in forestalling
the Communists by providing Government schools
in such areas að Tai Po and Sha Tin in the New
Territories.
BACKGROUND
General
36. It is now nearly two years since the end
of the Communist campaign of violence against the
Hong Kong authorities. During this period there
has been no organised violence in the Colony;
there have been sporadic incidents involving
violence on a minor scale but such incidents are
believed to have been entirely spontaneous in
origin and to have received no instigation or
encouragement from the Communist authorities in
Peking. In fact such violence as there has been
may reasonably be attributed to the protracted
difficulties experienced by the local Communist
leadership in convincing (under directions from
Peking) their more militant cadres of the
desirability of abandoning violence in favour
of a long term ideological campaign to win public
support for their cause.
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