almist
illustrates clearly the automatic response of ODM to any
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request for aid which does not emanate from the poorer
countries and to that extent seems to me to disregard
those more hard headed considerations which ought also
to have a bearing on the matter. I am not suggesting
that we should give aid invariably for reasons of self-
interest but only that we should have regard to self-
interest as well as to the moral considerations.
4. All this, of course, has a bearing on aid to Hong
Kong. Unless there is a change of heart, so long as Hong
Kong is regarded as relatively affluent she will con-
tinue to remain at the back of the aid queue.
5. It is easy to see how current impressions of Hong
Kong have been formed, but it is often less easy to find
facts to substantiate them. Industrialization has
brought with it serious problems in housing, immigration,
social welfare, communications, etc.. within Hong Kong.
The presence of active Communists within the Colony is
alee always a problem, and large masses of urbanized
material
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industrial workers present birger and better opportuni-
ties for political agitaton than de predominantly rural
fathespect communities.
6.
Given her present prosperity and relative wealth,
Ainds to be the assumption
there is a natural temptation to assume that Hong Kong
will continue to prosper. However
for reasons out-
lined below, this assumption is not necessarily correct.
In her present state Hong Kong could keep the lid on
always
many potential problems, but she must be prepared for political tension these to come to the surface. To this end She would be
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greatly aided by practical demonstrations of British
confidence in her future.
7.
kim
Since the early 1950s, the economic transformation
Extrms of the Colony has been described in somewhat extravagant
ratha
language, as an "economic miracle" ete., and it is
/ assumed
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