GOVERNMENT HOUSE
HONG KONG.
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PERSONAL.
MR. Carter
30th December, 1968.
Dear
Centur
I take the opportunity of the Christmas holiday to drop you a line about things here, although there is not a great deal to tell you.
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Everyone seems to be making money hand- over-fist, and economically the immediate future looks pretty bright. Politically, as far as the Communists are concerned, things are fairly quiet on the surface but their adherents are active enough underneath and still, of course, a grave menace; able to turn to violence at any minute and quite ready to provoke minor incidents at any time. Far from the violence having "ceased", I was so often and so erroneously told in London, minor violent incidents still occur quite frequently. The Communist press and the programme of educational expansion remain the most dangerous fields at present; and you will no doubt have seen that application has been made to re-register the ex-Chung Wah school buildings as a new school. They seem to be complying fairly well with the requirement that the school be ostensibly a new school, and no doubt we shall have to register them in due course. Nevertheless, although we will have lost the round, at least something was gained in checking them temporarily.
Once again our more irresponsible local critics, egged on by sections of the European press (trying to pressure their small circulations in the face of a lack of any startling news) are tending to use any
Sir Arthur Galsworthy, KCMG, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London, S.WI LAGI
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RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No.31
14 FEB 1969
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