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REGISTRY N 52
-9 AUG1974
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2 August 1974
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Dear Bill
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
1. Many thanks for your letter of 29 July which was helpful to me. I have one footnote to your paragraph 4.
2. This is that we may be perhaps missing a trick in our public replies in regard to the attitude of the 118 them- selves. As far as I am aware, none of them when in Hong Kong revealed that he was already in trouble back in Saigon, eg as a deserter, none suggested that he was in any particular danger if he was sent back except for draft dodging, none claimed to be a conscientious objector and none actually asked for political asylum either in Hong Kong or another country They seem to have merely pleaded to
be allowed to stay
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John
J C W Bushell
CC: Political Adviser to the Governor, HONG KONG
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