PERSONAL AND
CONFIDENTIAL
L.M. Davies, Esq., CMG, OBE, JP, Secretary (General Duties), Government Secretariat, Lower Albert Road,
Hong Kong.
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27 October, 1983
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This morning I spoke to Robert Adley concerning the attached letter and the report which had appeared in yesterday's South China Morning Post concerning Mr. Adley's telephone interview with Jill Hartley. You may have seen the article in question, in which, among other things, she said, "He turned angrily on Sir Jack for making their private chat public". I told Adley that I had certainly not made our discussion public and, indeed, had spoken to no journalists about it. He commented that he had received information from two journalists that I had in fact spoken to the press:
make a truth!
I suggested that two lies did not necessarily
He asked me what I would have done in his place, and I said I hoped that I would have been honourable and decent enough to have telephoned the person concerned
(i.e. me) and found out the truth before blabbing to the press. He made no comment.
proposing to visit
he intends holding "chat up" people
Adley then told me that he was Hong Kong on 18 November for a few days: a sort of constituency surgery simply to on his ideas for Hong Kong's future. He said that he does not expect or need any assistance. He further stated that he had no formal request to make of the Governor, but if the Governor were free and willing (he claims that he knows the Governor well) he would, of course, be pleased to have an interview with him.
I have today telexed the information contained in the immediately preceding paragraph.
ль.
Enc.
c.c. Mr. R.D.Clift
(Jack Cater)
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