TNAG-0361-FCO40-407-Political-parties-in-Hong-Kong-1973 — Page 3

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1

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JA Harrison Esq

Security Branch

Colonial Secretariat

HONG KONG

Telephone 01-

Your reference (64) in SCR3/3571771 II

Our reference HKK 1/2

Date

19 November 1973

LAS

K. f.

จ) Who Fell

THE "KNOW CHINA" MOVEMENT

1. Many thanks for your letter of 25 September, enclosing the paper produced by the Special Branch.

2. We showed the paper to Mr Royle, who thought the new movement might become very disturbing. The participants evidently regard their policy not only as preparing themselves for an inevitable hand-over to China, but also as aimed at promoting and bringing forward that end. If this is so the movement could presumably move quite quickly from understandable cultural nationalism into subversion. Mr Royle has accordingly said that he hopes it will be watched carefully, and that we can see regular Special Branch reports on it.

3. We noticed that, in paragraph 2, the report said that young people "can expect to live the prime of their lives under whatever regime is in charge of China in the 1990's". The implication that such an expectation is correct seems to be rather outside the field of the Special Branch - but perhaps this is only a point of drafting.

R B Crowson

Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Department

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