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From
Mr. H.H. Stewart
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
HONG KONG
Proposed New Pensions Policy: Consequential
Hong Kong Problems.
If dependent territories were immediately
included in the proposed new deal whereby H.M.G.
assumes responsibility from overseas governments
for the pensions of expatriate officers, there might
well be unfortunate repercussions in the case of
Hong Kong. As dependent as other colonies, Hong
Kong is nevertheless unique in that there is no
prospect that the political situation will evolve
normally. In consequence, Hong Kong can make the same
sort of claims on H.M.G. as other dependent
territories, but cannot look forward in the same way
to eventual independence. We must expect that one
day the Colonial Government will be succeeded,
possibly without warning, by a government which will
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not assume the obligation to pay any pensions
earned by service under the Colonial Government, whe-
ther by expatriate or local officers.
H.M.G. may
therefore expect one day to inherit that obligation
herself.
The questions whether H.M.G. will incur a
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