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interests are well represented in Legislative and Executive

Council, who are the Governor's principal unofficial

advisers. The Governor's problem is to involve the

interests and energies of the ordinary people.

In 1967 during the Cultural Revolution, the mass of the

Hong Kong population supported the Government, passively

if not actively. They still do. But inflation and falling

real wages could erode that support.

Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Department

4 April 1974

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