SCR 4/3571/62 III
Mus
1. Latin bu ya
28 August, 1969.
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Thank you for your letter of 12 August about the report in the South China Morning Post of Kenneth Blackwell's remarks on his arrival.
2.
I agree that the Morning Post seem to have got a bee in their bonnet about the tremendous significance for Sino/British relations of the upgrading of the post in Hong Kong and the appointment of Kenneth Blackwell to fill it. The Government Information Services will take an opportunity to correct these ideas when they next see the Morning Post representatives but we think the story is in any case
dead.
3.
Kenneth Blackwell had no idea what a hornet's nest he was entering. As soon as the Cathay came alongside at the Ocean Terminal the journalists were on board and he was being televised and recorded. was only after those events that I had a chance to meet him.
4. Murray.
I am sending a copy of this letter to James
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LAGT
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(A.F. Maddocks)
J.B. Denson, Esq., OBE, British Charge d'Affaires, PEKING.
P.A.please.
* 10/9/69
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REGISTRY No. 51 -9 SEP 1969
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