TNAG-0574-FCO40-707-Hong-Kong-annual-review-for-1975-1976 — Page 46

香港總督府

MOPED N

CONFIDENTIAL

GOVERNMENT HOUSE

HONG KONG

**2.51

23rd January 1976

Sir,

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This despatch is my Annual Report for

I must

1975. A calendar of events is attached.

apologise for its lateness due to my absence on

leave.

2.

The Hong Kong of today is sustained by

a tripod. The three legs are: the support of HMG,

the policy of the Chinese Government, and Hong Kong's

ability to support its swollen population by its own

resilient economy.

third leg, the economy, take the full force of world

recession and bend perilously, then adjust to the new

stresses and begin to straighten up again. I will

describe the course of events in more detail at the

end of this despatch, but it has certainly been a

most anxious time.

In 1974 and '75 I watched the

3.

We are also trying to build a fourth leg

to the tripod from a better relationship between

Government and governed. It is being constructed

from social progress, closer contact, more open and

responsive government and progressive participation,

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JAMES CALLAGHAN, M.P.

CONFIDENTIAL