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"REPORT FROM HONG KONG"
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1. In the draft reply to Mr Parry's PQ to the Prime Minister about this document we suggested that the Prime Minister should give an assurance that a reply would shortly be sent to the correspondent.
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Such an assurance was in fact
I attach a draft reply, which I suggest should issue from Mr Stewart. I also attach a draft covering letter to the Secretary for Security.
J Thompson
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28 November 1977
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Mr Somerset puts forward his views in "good faith" in an attempt to let no hear an alternative point of view. I don't know whether he has any justification for saying he speaks for the silent majorits - but I am equally uncertain whether the point of view put forward by the #1 Government is really. representative as they claim of the views of the ordinary, Chinese man - the street. It is therefore useful to have to Ń Somerset's views, which st the me as being whiculately expressed and gemninel, held. Although his arguments are understandably overstated at times, some of his conclusions (e.g.or the best course for the Police Commissioner to take now!) we not all that wide of the mork. But I do not think we can enter into a dialogue with him: I have therefore redrafted the reply to avoid chopping logic with him (especially since to do so would
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