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TRANSCRIPT C: SELECT COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG

12 JUNE 1989

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SIR DAVID VILSON (CONTD);

As I see it, what people in Hong Kong are looking

is some sort

for, particularly in light of recent events,

of an assurance that if things went badly wrong they would

have somewhere to go.

immediately to move.

with that assurance.

It is not that they want

They want to stay in Hong Kong, but

MR. TEMPLE-MORRIS:

So you are putting, it seems to me, u moral case for

passport-holders 3.25 million people.

Do you think, Sir David, that it is possible,

looking at it from this end, to look at it in any other

way than that if you grant people a right of abode you

have to be prepared to accept them and the sort of emergency of the 27th Army or something marching across

the New Territories

this

I am not trying to be funny about

that sort of emergency would mean that in our terms

here, we would have to look at virtually everybody coming

at the same time?