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Notes taken at the Governor's meeting with Mr. Stewart and

the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on 21.11.

Mr. Cortazzi at

at 10 00 a.m

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Dell was not available.

A meeting with Judd has subsequently

been arranged for 30 November at 4 p.m.

The Governor would like to meet the Hong Kong Department. It was agreed Mr. Stewart would bring them to the Hong Kong

Government Office on 29 November at 11 30 a.m. and they would

stay to lunch.

Present at the meeting were :

Lord Goronwy-Roberts

Sir Murray MacLehose

Mr H Cortazzi

Mr J A B Stewart

Mr D C Bray

Mr A Smith

Mr CM D Hull

Mr H R G Hirst

Mr R Quantrill

Mr J Thompson

Minister of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs

The Governor of Hong Kong

DUS

Head, Hong Kong Department

Hong Kong Commissioner

Economic Adviser

Economic Adviser

Labour Adviser

Hong Kong & General Dept.

Hong Kong & General Dept.

POLICE FORCE

Lord Goronwy-Roberts (GR)

asked whether there had not been

time between the Hutchison House attack on 28 October and the

amnesty on 5 November for there to have been consultation with

the Foreign Office. He

agreed that the decision was within the

competence of the Governor.

Sir Murray MacLehose (MM) First signs of trouble were when ICAC was attacked by a small group of police on Wednesday 19 October. This involved presentation of a petition after a meeting of a few hundred men. The petition was about ICAC procedures and the formation of a junior police association. It was properly

put forward. It was a reasonable manifestation of the

that ICAC had caused in the police force. The size of the meeting was a little alarming. CP's assessment was that this

a blowing-off of steam and even a proposal for the march

was

unease

;