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No. HKK 16/2
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excellyawid To:-/Sir
Sir Hugh Norman Walker,
CCMG.,.M.C.,
Restricted. Unclassified.
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Mr Wilford
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The wholly intractable subject of Zopyright
including a bundle of files about 10 Anches thick
Ministe
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has recently reached me. It comes, of course, at a moment when there are no Ministers available to take
decisions, nor will there be for a while.
Judging
from the representations made to us here by the pro-
tagonists involved on behalf of RTV and TVB, it seems
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to me that, as matters stand at the moment, some degree
of confrontation will be inevitable. This will cert-
ainly not appeal either to a new Minister trying to
learn his job or even to an old one anxious to avoid
confrontation too soon. I think it essential, there-
fore, that we should first make every effort to ensure
that all possibilities of avoiding a clash are thoroughly
examined before we make any firm recommendations to
Ministers.
2. In seeking to avoid such a confrontation, while,
the Hong Kong Goot pursuing the essentials of the policy which you have
themselver
set yourselves, I was particularly struck by the first
three sentences of the concluding paragraph of the
your
Governor's Saving Despatch No. 1393 of 24 October,
1968, the terms of which I fully endorse.
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of action which you propose is, I am sure,
The course
sure, intended
to protect the public interest, given the inability of
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the two companies to come to an agreement.
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