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From
DRAFT
To:-
His Excellency
Sir David Trench, GCMG,
Mc
Government House,
HONG KONG
Sir Arthur Galsworthy
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
I owe you an apology for having failed
to reply earlier to your personal letter of
the 30th December. I am afraid that my
in part to a sudden delayed response has been due to my having to
pay andunscheduled visit to the Bahamas.
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Hong Kong seems to be going from
on the economic frontTM strength to economie strength and I never
cease to marvel at what four million hard-
working people have done and are still doing.
So much so that countries many times its size
make no bones about the fact that they regard
increasingly
the Colony as an ever more formidable trade
rival.[Take in slip]
On the political front, I am quite sure
you are right in saying that the Communist
press and their programme of educational
expansion present the most intransigent problems
facing us at the moment. Looking at the scene
from this distance, one gets the impression
that the latter is the more dangerous of the
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two; this may be because, rightly or wrongly,
it appears from here that the general public
of Hong Kong are too sophisticated to be
easily influenced by propaganda, especially
since so many of them have experienced the
delights of Chinese Communism at first hand.
The present policy of the Communists in using
their schools for the purposes of political
deleterious indoctrination is bound to have a dilatory
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