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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