CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1
A E Donald Esq
Political Adviser
HONG KONG
Telephone 01-
Your reference
Our reference
Date
18 July 1974
128
Dew Alam,
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM SOUTH VIETNAM
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Dick Crowson wrote to you on 28 June_about a letter which Mr Tracy had sent to a number of MPs. Lord Goronwy-Roberts replied to most of these on the lines indicated in Dick's letter, but he did promise Mr Maclennan that we would write to him again when we had heard from you.
2.
Subsequently, since my return, we have had Mr Tracy's original letter from Mr Greville Janner MP. I do not think we can offer him less than Mr Maclennan, as the recipients of Mr Tracy's letter may compare notes. I have therefore recommended a reply following the same line as previous letters (though modified on the lines of the recent PQ to expose less surface on the question of who is or is not an innocent victim), and ending with a promise that if we get more relevant information from you we will let Mr Janner know.
3.
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Do you think therefore that you could provide a commentary on Mr Tracy's letter with material that we could use in further replies? I take it that Li Kit was not the man who was allowed to stay in Hong Kong, whose name according to The Times of 17 June was Chan Kwok Kei. We cannot hope, nor would it be sensible, to try to answer all Mr Tracy's points in detail; it would, I think, be helpful if we could have a succinct account of the investigations made into this and other cases and of the legal powers under which the Government of Hong Kong acted. We might also make a comment on the alleged inhumanity and disregard of the law of the Director of Immigration.
4.
On the wider issue I have asked the legal advisers for a note on the legal difficulties which we got into in the case of the Moroccans in Gibraltar, which I will send to you as soon as I get it.
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A C Stuart
Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Dept.
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