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(c) Extract from People's Daily editorial of 8 March 1963:-
"With regard to the outstanding issues which are a legacy of the past we have always held that when conditions are ripe (such questions) should be settled peacefully through
negotiations. Pending a settlement, the status quo should be maintained. Within this category are the questions of Hong Kong, Kowloon and Macao."
(a) Extract from minute by Mr M H Morgan (Foreign Office) of 16 December 1964:-
"Col. Cantlie said that Mr Wu (Mr Wu Mao-sun, the Secretary- General of the Chinese Peoples' institute for Foreign Affairs) had saved what was perhaps his most interesting point for the closing moments of the interview. He had referred to some remarks about Hong Kong made by Chou En-lai to Col. Cantlie on his last visit and had gone on to say that the Chinese liked to see the British there; they did not like changes in personalities or to see new people coming to power.
Col. Cantlie said that he had not known how to interpret these remarks but he had drawm the clear implication from them, when he had subsequently arrived in Hong Kong to find the papers full of comment about the need for a strengthening of the Urban Councils and similar references to the placing of greater power in the hands of the Chinese population, that the Chinese would be opposed to any such development.
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7 May 1971
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