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insinuation in your LegCo speech on 18 November that review was "nothing but a fraud".
(AGB McNair Survey confusing/rigged)
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Careful arrangements made to ensure no interference from Hong Kong Government or Survey Office in design of questionnaire or conduct of survey. Noted that in LegCo debate on 18 November you implied that conduct and outcome of Survey was manipulated by Hong Kong Government. Hope you are now ready to accept that these
insinuations were unfounded. Hong Kong people have been very fully consulted on all issues raised in Green Paper.
(If correctly interpreted, Survey Office report shows clear majority in favour of direct elections in 1988)
Open to question whether
Do not believe that conclusion can be drawn from report. majority of speakers in LegCo debate on 18 November.
Nor did
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(There should be referendum on direct elections in 1988)
See no need for referendum. Not in any case a suitable subject for this. Hong Kong people have been very fully consulted on all
issues raised in Green Paper.
(Signature campaign ignored. What about identical letters?)
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Signature campaigns not ignored. All views expressed are properly noted in the Survey Office Report and will be given due
consideration.
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(You are too subservient to pressure from the Chinese)
- No. In considering the development of representative government in Hong Kong we have at all times had the interests of Hong Kong and
We have made clear to everyone its people as our primary concern.
that all options in the Green Paper are real ones, and that full account must be taken of the views expressed on them by Hong Kong
people.
(Secret deal with the Chinese)
No. We have briefed Chinese on developments and provided them
No more than that. Survey with a copy of Survey Office Report.
Final decisions will be taken only Report is still being studied.
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