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CALL ON THE SECRETARY OF STATE BY maissia

MR TOM PENDRY MP

12.30 pm, 6 SEPTEMBER 1973

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The Rt Hon Sir Alec. Douglas-

Mr Tom, Pendry MP

Home KT MP

Mr R B Crowson

Mr P H Grattan

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13/4.

Sir Alec Douglas-Home welcomed Mr Pendry, who said that he

had just had a busy visit to Hong Kong, and on the way back had

stopped off in the Seychelles.

2.

Mr Pendry said that he thought Sir Murray MacLehose was well in tune with people's feelings in Hong Kong. His social programmes were very good. But there remained irritants below the surface.

The worst of these was corruption. Hong Kong people accepted some degree of corruption, but the Godber case went beyond the limitn and feeling in Hong Kong that he should be returned was very strong indeed. He and Mr George Cunningham MP, who had visited Hong Kong with him, had been constantly pressed about this. There had been

student demonstrations, but he personally thought that that was not

the right way to go about the matter. There was a lack of

confidence in the Hong Kong police force. He had spent two days with them and had found their morale low, although there were many

very good officers and men in the Force. The problem was at the

top. The Commissioner himself was above suspicion, but there was

little confidence in the man who was expected to succeed him. Thio

was thought likely to be Mr Slevin. Opinion in the Force was that

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