TNAG-0570-FCO40-703-Planning-paper-on-Hong-Kong-1976 — Page 141

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PLANNING PAPER ON HONG KONG

POINTS OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE REDRAFT ENCLOSED WITH THE GOVERNOR'S LETTER OF 1 JUNE TO MR O'KEEFFE AND OUR PAPER

Summary

1. This is broadly the same but paragraph 3 is new and paragraph 4 plays down the idea of "institutional change".

General Section

2.

This is identical, including the main conclusions arrived at in the Paper, except that the Paper is stated to consist of six (not five) sections because of the inclusion of a new section dealing

with the interests of the people of Hong Kong.

Section I: The Interests of the People of Hong Kong

3. This section, as stated, is entirely new.

Section II: British Interest

4. Paragraph 6: the introductory clause is new and reference to

our aim being to seek disengagement is omitted.

Paragraph 7: the following references are new - "and ultimately (and far more important) by the necessity

exist"; "all of which

have been manageable" (both on page 8); "unless many of the deficiencies of life in the Colony can be rectified" in the

penultimate sentence; and the last two lines of the paragraph (both on page 9).

Paragraph 8: the second, third and fourth sentences as well as the last six are new.

Section III: The Chinese Interest

5. This section is identical with Section II in our Paper.

Section IV: External Relations

6. Apart from the ommission of the phrase "even if this is what we ourselves would want" at the end of paragraph 13, this section is

identical with Section III in our Paper.

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