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6. The Governor's reply to my question about the
effect in Hong Kong of new citizenship provisions
which we have in mind was admirably robust and
I have no doubt that he will carry through whatever taken by itself he thought he could carry them thro we decide. But any changes subject to certain eptiong which he put forwar
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raming confidence in Hos Kong, being adopted
owever, that he would have and I am sure we should not consider them unters much greater difficulties if they were fortuitously the counteracting gains to us
was langith, and substantial
He added!
in time combined with unsatisfactory propovals on
sterling agreemente or mother sharp difference o“
view about death sentences
5. As you will know in the light of my colleagues
7 The decision to reprieve advice I decided that Tsoi, the convicted murderer,
1
closely
should be reprieved This did not go down at all well
in Hong Kong, more particularly as it was seen followed in time by a case where, for strictly legal
reasons, we have so far been unable to send back from
this country for trial in Hong Kong a British police
lange scale comption. officer accused of bribery in a big way
To the man that in both cases
in the Hong Kong street it seems we use different we have frustrated the course of justice in Hos Kons. standards for Chinege and Britons. On death sentences
I have had to tell the Governor that, Parliamentary feeling in this country being what it is, I cannot
give him a cast iron guarantee that I would not again
reverse his decision, if a petition against a death,
İfa:
We have therefore
sentenee should be made to The Queen.
agreed that if I felt unable to accept his judgement
on another such case and there are already such cases
Gal
in the pipeline - I would be prepared (as the less damas ins difficult course)to initiate legislation in Parliament
in this comestry
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