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mutually satisfactory outcome of these problems is

reached, we look to the Government information

services in Hong Kong to put this across in such a

way that the result is an improvement of our general

relations.

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This is of course an ideal pattern, which often

does not work in practice. But the alternative would

be to allow ourselves to get into an adversary

situation which could in the end make the Governor's

job impossible. The result of this caution may

sometimes be that the British case goes publicly

unheard, or is insufficiently understood in Hong Kong.

But this is a situation which I think we can live

with.in the short term. The new Governor has after

all been in Hong Kong for less than two years.

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