TNAG-0291-FCO40-327-Constitutional-development-of-Hong-Kong-1971 — Page 44

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I expressed my surprise at hearing

this as, I said, I had assumed that any

step of this nature would be welcomed by

China as a step towards the eventual

reunion of Hong Kong with China - the

leased territories would have to be

returned to China in any case in 1997, or

thereabouts. The Premier replied with an

emphatic negative. China wished, he

repeated, for no change at all."

(b) With a letter dated 28 November 1960

Mr MacLehose (who was then Political

Adviser in Hong Kong) sent a police

report which contained the following

Extract

tract from a Statement made on

29 October 1960 by Liu Shing Chi,

Chairman of

Array

Overseas Chinese Affairs

Commission, in discussion with a party of

Hong Kong trade union officials and

representatives who were visiting Peking

he statement was made with reference to

The

a point raised about "self-government" in

the New Territories as proposed by the

Americans - ans)-

"American imperialism is our

dreadful enemy and there is no doubt that

the British do not like this proposal.

If the work in educating and bringing

compatriots in the New Territories into

unity were properly done, the American

imperialists would never succeed.

Should the proposal come from the British

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/it would

B

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