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MY TELNÒ 1381: SECRETARY OF STATE'S MEETING WITH WU XUEQIAN
1. FURTHER TO PARA. 5 OF TUR, # SEEM TO RECALL (ALTHOUGH WE CANNOT NOW PUT OUR HANDS ON THE RELEVANT PAPERS HERE) THAT THE SPEEDING
UP OF THE DISTRICT BOARD PROCESS BEGAN AFTER A WISHT TO LONDON #IN
1979 BY URBAN COUNCILLORS ELSIE ELLIOTT AND BROOK BERNACCH: AND
THE PUTTING-DOWN OF AN EARLY DAY MOTHON IN PARLIAMENT WHICH
ATTRACTED ABOUT 150 SIGNATURES. MR. BLAKER THEN TOOK THE MATTER
UP WITH THE THEN GOVERNOR DURING ONE OF HIS VISITS TO LONDON.
2. AF A CHECK OF THE PAPERS SHOWS MY MEMORY TO BE CORRECT, YOU MAY
WISH TO SUGGEST TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE THAT OF WU DOES ARGUE
THAT HMG HAS ONLY TAKEN AN UNTEREST IN CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
SINCE THE NEGOTINATIONS BEGAN, HE MIGHT QUOTE THESE EVENTS AS
EVIDENCE THAT PRESSURE ON THIS SUBJECT BEGAN,' 'IN HONG KONG AND HIN PARLIAMENT, WELL BEFORE 1982. THE 1982 DB ELECTIONS AND THE 1984
GREEN AND WHITE PAPERS WERE ONLY THE CULMINATION OF A PROCESS THAT
STARTED MUCH EARLIER.
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