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expected to conflict with a colonial territory as independent a social and economic entity as Hong Kong.
stabis (To take one example: the conflicting views,
passionately held in Parliament on the one hand and by the overwhelming majority in Hong Kong on the other, over the death penalty are virtually impossible to resolve.) There may well be occasions when, in advising the Secretary of State, we will wish to move faster than the Governor of Hong Kong, advised by his officials, will judge wise. But at least, in such cases, the off responsibility can be exercised, and will be seen to be exercised, by the Secretary of
State.
29.
dimenition,
Practical arrangements of this kind will need
to be supplemented by other measures of a more general character. Inevitably, any loss of Hong Kong's present de facto autonomy may well be resented in Hong Kong. This could, without corrective measures, lead to
confiantly affects, the chances of success of the preval strettione anti-British resentment and indeed a growth of
sentiment referred to in paragraph 26 above.
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be necessary in our view, to combat this by promoting
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an active appreciation in Hong Kong of our overall policy with regard to the Colony and the development in Hong Kong Government officials who are, after all,
greath servants of the Crown, any awareness of their role in that overall policy. It will also be necessary to take active steps to counter anti-British sentiment generally through an active information policy in which all senior officials in Hong Kong will be expected to
play an essential, perhaps crucial, part.
In Britain,
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