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FOUNDER
REV. MORTON A. HILL, SJ
(July 13, 1917-November 4, 1985)
RABBI DR. JULIUS G. NEUMANN Chairman of the Board
REV. PAUL J. MURPHY, SJ President
EVELYN DUKOVIC Executive Vice-President
RUTH KAPP
REV. ROBERT E. WILTENBURG
Vice-Presidents
GEORGE B. FERGUSON Comptroller
PAUL J. MCGEADY, ESQ
General Counsel
DIRECTORS
GEORGE A. DOYLE, JR. EVELYN DUKOVIC
REV. DR. MILTIADES B. EFTHIMIOU
SHEILA FLANIGAN
DAVID O. HOPKINS
RICHARD HUGHES
PAUL J. MCGEADY
THE REV. GARETH MILLER REV. PAUL J. MURPHY, S.J. RABBI DR. JULIUS G. NEUMANN
JOHN J. REILLY VICTOR SAYEGH PAUL J. TROG ELMER VON FELDT JOHN W. WALBER, ESQ JOHN J. WALSH, ESQ KATHLEEN ZAWACKI
NATIONAL PLANNING BOARD
JOSEPH COORS President
Adolph Coors Company ARNOLD R. DEUTSCH
Director
Deutsch, Shea & Evans
JOHN H. DOUGLAS Ret. Chairman & President United Electronics Institute
FRANCIS J. DUNLEAVY Ret. Vice-Chairman International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation RT. REV. RICHARD S. EMRICH Ret. Episcopal Bishop of Michigan THOMAS W. GLEASON President International Longshoremen's Ass'n.
N. BUNKER HUNT Chairman, Hunt Energy Corporation JOHN M. JOYCE Chairman of the Board Joyce Beverages, Inc. WILLIAM S. KANAGA Chairman, Advisory Board Arthur Young International
JOHN R. KENNEDY, JR. President
Federal Paper Board Co., Inc. WELLINGTON T. MARA President
New York Football Giants, Inc. THOMAS A. MURPHY Ret. Chairman
General Motors Corporation HON. WILLIAM E. SIMON Chairman, Wesray Corporation EDWARD L. STEINIGER Ret. Chairman, Sinclair Oil Corp. ARTHUR R. TAYLOR Chairman
Arthur Taylor & Co., Inc.
EMMET E. TRACY Chairman & President Alma Products, Inc. MISS LORETTA YOUNG
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Secretary to
Her Majesty the Queen Buckingham Palace London, England
Your Majesty:
On September 23,
letter to the Crown
the message
1987 Colony
I
February 22, 1988
wrote the attached of Hong Kong and Unfortunately, the
not
Colony and the Television
apparently have that it is
inconsistent
received the attached reply. Governor of the Crown Licensing Authority understood the for certain types of television programs to be prohibited in Britain and permitted in Hong Kong. In this respect I give you a copy of an article from Variety dated January 6, 1988 to the effect that viewers in Hong Kong will now be exposed to full frontal nudity on the T.V. screen. The concept that 800 people who replied to some type of a "survey," which has not been explained or scientifcally justified, reflects the morals of the
Kong is unbelievable.
of people
Hong
We request Your Majesty to intervene in this matter and see that your subjects in Hong Kong are not exposed to more sex, crime and violence on the TV screen than they are exposed to in Great Britain. We
We also suggest that you request that this so-called "survey" be submitted to you for examination and determination of whether a true "universe" of the population, or a cross section thereof, was scientifically reflected both in the questions proposed and in the results.
I think you should give particular attention to the type of question that was asked and to whom the question was asked. Were the explicit sex scenes that are contemplated described in the question? Were the people prepared to accept lewd exhibition of the genitals, violent rape, etc? or were the questions of such a general nature that the true intentions of the questioner
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