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Extract from Martin Lee's 5 November 1987 speech to Lej Co.

20

G

exercise the highest possible control-over-a-people which

won

the Colony by

force.

And

was

it is singularly

Special

Administrative Region

with over

unsuitable for a government of a

within China,

which has been promised a high degree of autonom y

and with a fully elected legislature.

If

our present

colonial

system is embodied into the Basic Law, possibly out of a desire

on the part of

degree

the

Government Central

to maintain the. same

of control,

like

?

wineskins.

it is

The system will soon disintegrate and the ambitious

policy of "one country, two systems" will fail.

putting

old

wine

into

new

Report of the Survey Office

not Sir, it was

my original

intention

to

address

this

Council

on

the

Report

of

the

Survey

Office which was

But having taken a very

tabled before this Council yesterday.

look at Part

cursory

I of the Report, I fear that I must say

something even today, but I will try to be as brief as I can.

-

in

the which

I must voice my strongest possible

the manner

McNair HK Ltd., particularly the

disapproval

of

questionnaire

was

designed by AGB

one

in

to relation

the all.

important issue

of

whether

or

not direct elections should be

introduced in 1988. The questionnaire

at page 20 of Annex A to Appendix X contains 4 questions :-

contained in section F

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