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TO ROUTINE FCO TELNO 138 OF 7 FEBRUARY INFO PEKING (PERSONAL FOR AMBASSADOR).
FOLLOWING PERSONAL FOR STUART, HKIOD FROM POLITICAL ADVISER.
A YOUNG BRITISH LAWYER IN HONG KONG, MAURICE TRACY, WHO HAS INTERESTED HIMSELF IN THE QUESTION OF GREATER POPULAR REPRESENTATION HERE SINCE LORD GORONWY-ROBERTS' VISIT (SEE FOR EXAMPLE MANILA TELEGRAM NO. 2 TO HONG KONG (NOT TO PEKING)), RECENTLY TRIED TO ARRANGE A PRIVATE MEETING WITH ME TO DISCUSS THE LIMITS WITHIN WHICH CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE MAY BE POSSIBLE IN HONG KONG WITHOUT CAUSING OFFENCE TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. I DECLINED TO MEET HIM BUT IN THE COURSE OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION HE MENTIONED THAT THE ''INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE'' OF THE LABOUR PARTY WAS CONSIDERING ISSUING A PAMPHLET IN LONDON WITHIN A WEEK OR SO WHICH WOULD MENTION THE LIKELIHOOD OF HONG KONG ''GOING BACK TO CHINA”
2. YOU MAY WISH TO ALERT LORD GORONWY-ROBERTS' OFFICE. IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO KNOW THE FACTS. TRACY IS CONNECTED WITH LOCAL
''A LEFT-WING GROUP WHICH IN TURN HAS LINKS WITH AUTHORS OF A CASE TO ANSWER''. HE SEEMS DETERMINED TO ATTRACT PUBLICITY TO HIMSELF ALTHOUGH HE HAS SAID THAT HE WILL IN DUE COURSE BE RETURNING TO
THE U.K.,
WHERE HE STOOD UNSUCCESSFULLY FOR PARLIAMENT AS A LABOUR
CANDIDATE IN 1970.
MACLEHOSE
Mr Stuart is enquiring.
BU 10 days
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