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HONG KONG TELEGRAM NO. 287 TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
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THE 1956 CONGRESS INITIALLY BROUGHT IN ITS WAKE A MORE PRAGMATIC ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE WESTERN WORLD SEMICOLON FOR HONG KONG
IT MARKED A STEPPING UP OF UNITED FRONT WORK. THOUGH POSSIBLY PREMATURE TO FORECAST WHAT WILL EMERGE FOR THE WESTERN WORLD FROM THE CURRENT CONGRESS, THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST IT BRINGING ABOUT ANY MAJOR CHANGE IN PEKING'S POLICY TOWARDS HONG KONG. INDEED, IT IS CONSIDERED UNLIKELY THAT MORE THAN A PASS- ING REFERENCE WILL BE MADE TO THE COLONY, AS BEFORE, HOWEVER, AND IN LINE WITH THE EXISTING COMMUNIST POLICY OF CONCENTRATING UPON BUILDING UP MASSIVE PUBLIC SUPPORT LOCALLY, WE CAN EXPECT THIS CONGRESS TO PROVIDE A BASIS FOR INTENSIFIED PROPAGANDA WITH YET FURTHER EMPHASIS ON UNITED FRONT WORK AND LOYALTY TO THE MOTHER COUNTRY -CERTAINLY, TOO, IT SEEMS THAT LOCAL COMMUNIST MORALE WILL RECEIVE AN OVERALL BOOST FROM THE OUTWARD MANIFESTATIONS OF A ONCE MORE UNIFIED CHINA.
SIR D. TRENCH
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