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TRANSCRIPT C: SELECT COMMITTÉR ON HONG KONG 12 JUNE 1989
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SIR DAVID VILSON:
I do understand that looked at from this end, you
bave to look at the potential commitment but I do
emphasise the point that I made earlier: not only is it
true that far less than 3.2 million actually have these
passports at the moment, but far less than the number who
actually have them would, in my view, wish to come here
under any circumstances but certainly that is true at the
moment.
If there is the sort of Armageddon scenario that you
were sketching, which all of wish to avoid, all of us will
do everything we possibly can to avoid, then I suggest
Britain does have a very strong moral obligation to the
people of Hong Kong,
MR.
TEMPLE-MORRIS:
China
-
In terms of the events in China the atrocities in
- could I just ask you specifically because you,
if
I may say so, quite rightly said that the whole emphasis
the whole situation has become that much
bas increased,
more poignant if you like, but has it made any other
difference to the situation other than increasing the
emphasis?
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