WITHOUT JUSTIFICATION OR REASON. I HAVE BEEN GLAD TO NOTICE THAT AT
LEAST MR. GREY HAS BEEN ABLE TO HAVE A VISIT RECENTLY. BUT I WAS VERY
MUCH DISTRESSED TO LEARN OF THE INHUMAN CONDITIONS IN WHICH HE HAS BEEN
KEPT AND THAT THIS HAS BEEN CONE NOT FOR ANY ACT OF HIS, OR ANY
ALLEGATION OF AN ACT OF HIS, BUT PURELY FOR POLITICAL REASONS. I WOULD
HOPE THAT, WITH THE GRADUAL EASING OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PEKING AND
US AND PEKING AND THE REST OF THE WORLD, HIS RELEASE WILL BE POSSIBLE".
3.
NOT
IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION MR. STEWART SAID HE HAD SOUGHT PAKISTAN'S HELP
IN THIS CONECTION, BUT HE HAD ASKED AND HE THOUGHT HE HAU OBTAINED THE
UNDERSTANDING OF THE FOREIGN MINISTER THAT THIS WAS ONE OF THE
DIFFICULTIES BETWEEN CHINA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM. "YE FELL THAT YOU,
BEING HEIGHBOURS, MAY BE IN A BETTER POSITION TO HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING
OF THEM THAN WE HAVE. IT IS OBVIOUSLY OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO ALL OF US
THAT THERE SHOULD BE A RELAXATION OF TENSIONS BETWEEN CHINA AND THE REST
OF THE WORLD."
4.
REPLYING TO ANOTHER QUESTION, THE SECRETARY OF STATE EMPHASISED THAT,
WILIKE THE JOURNALISTS ARRESTED IN HONG KONG, "THERE IS NOT EVEN THE
SUGGESTION THAT HE (GREY) HAS DONE ANYTHING WRONG EITHER BY OUR
STANDARDS OR BY CHINESE STANDARDS." THE JOURNALISTS HAD BEEN TRIED AND
CONVICTED IN HONG KONG.
5.
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Dear Michael,
29 November, 1968.
You may just like to know (and I shall also be telling the Department)
that at the beginning of The Queen's talk this morning with the Pakistan
High Commissioner, the conversation turned at once to the subject of the
Chinese and their treatment of Mr. Grey. I mentioned that the Pakistanis
had been taking a certain amount of trouble in recent years with their
relations with the Chinese, and The Queen asked
Mr. Haroun whether they had found any explanation of
Chinese behaviour in such matters.
2.
Mr. Haroun said that the Pakistanis were just as mystified as everybody
else. They had found that up to a point it was possible to conduct
relations with the Chinese as with other people, but that there always
seemed to come a point where Chinese behaviour was inexplicable and did
not seem to be measureable by
standards applied by other nations.
Consequently, he
thought that there was a limit to the degree of closeness
which Pakistan could achieve in its relations with
China.
3. The Queen observed that the whole phenomenon was a
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puzzling one since the Chinese seemed, under their
impassive exterior, to have a capacity for being very
very good or very very bad.
4. The conversation then switched to reminiscences
about Her Majesty's visit to Pakistan in 1961.
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16 DECEMBER 1968
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DRESSED TO P-KING TELEGRAM NO.9 OF 16 DECEMBER REPEATED FOR
INFORMATION TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE AND SAVING TO
WASHINGTON AND HONG KONG
F.C.O. TELEGRAM NO. 1315 TO RAWALPINDI
TH
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WE SENT YOU EN CLAIR BY COMMERCIAL TELEGRAPHIC CHANNELS ON
12 DECEMBER THE TEXT OF A HELPFUL STATEMENT IN THE CANADIAN HOUSE
OF COMMONS BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS AND,
SEPARATELY, EXAMPLES OF CANADIAN PRESS COMMENT ON THE GREY AFFAIR
INDICATING THE STRONG FEELING AROUSED AND LESSONS DRAWN IN CANADA.
CONFIRMATORY COPIES HAVE BEEN SENT TO YOU BY BAG, (WITH COPIES TO
F.C.0. AND OTHER ADDRESSEES),
2. THE CANADIAN POST OFFICE HAS TODAY TOLD US THAT THE PEKING
TELEGRAPH OFFICE HAS REFUSED TO ACCEPT THESE TELEGRAMS, AND THEY
ARE BEING RETURNED TO US.
3. MAY WE ASSUME THAT THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES WILL HAVE TAKEN
COPIES SO THAT THE POINT OF THE EXERCISE WILL HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED?
OR WOULD YOU LIKE US TO SEND THEM AGAIN, PERHAPS SPLIT INTO A
SERIES OF SHORT TELEGRAMS? ALTERNATIVELY, WOULD YOU LIKE US TO
TELEGRAPH THE TEXTS EN CLAIR BY D.W.S.?
FCO PASS PRIORITY TO PEKING AND SAVING TO HONG KONG
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GREY. THIS HORNING'S ENGLISH LANGUAGE HONG KONG, STANDARD
CARRIES AN QUOTE EXCLUSIVE UNQUOTE INTERVIEW WITH DR. T.P.WU,
DESCRIBED AS A QUOTE TOP HONG KONG RED UNQUOTE, AND A QUOTE
LEADING MEMBER OF THE ALL CIRCLES ANTI- PERSECUTION STRUGGLE
COMMITTEE UNQUOTE. ON GREY, WU WAS QUOTED INTER ALIA AS SAY-
ING, QUOTE NO MANOEUVRES BY THE WESTERN PRESS, NO COMMENTS AND
EXHORTATIONS IN THE BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS, NO APPEALS
BY THE GOVERNOR, OR ANYONE ELSE WILL HAVE ANY EFFECT. HE WILL
BE HELD UNTIL THE LAST CHINESE HAS BEEN RESTURED TO FREEDON BY
THE BRITISH IN HONG KONG. J WANT TO MAKE THIS PERFECTLY CLEAR
SO AS TO END THE DAILY FARCE IN THE NEWSPAPERS UNQUOTE.
2. AS THIS STORY MAY BE TAKEN UP BY CORRESPONDENTS HERE
YOU MAY WISH TO HAVE THE FOLLOWING BACKGROUND.
3.
THOUGH HE HAS BEEN HERE SINCE THE 1920's VU IS AN INDONESIAN
CHINESE AND STILL HOLDS A DUTCH PASSPORT. HE IS A LONG TERM
COMMUNIST SYMPATHISER AND YERY ANTISQUVERNIENT. A MENGER
OF A NUMBER OF COMMUNIST CONTROLLED ORGANISATIONS, HE WAS LISTLU
AS A MEMBER OF THE ALL CIRCLES ANTI-PERSECUTION STRUGGLE
COMNITTLE WHEN IT WAS FORMED IN MAY 1967.
4. WU IS NOT, HOWEVER, THOUGHT TO HAVE ANY INFLUENCE IN
COMMUNIST CIRCLES AND IS CERTAINLY NOT A QUOTE TOP RED UNQUOTE.
THERE IS NO CREPEAT NOD REASON TO SUPPOSE THAT HIS REMARKS
PEFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE COMMUNIST HIERARCHY, HE HAS A HABIT
OF BAKING PUBLIC STATEMENTS AND THESE HAVE HOHE OFTEN THAN NOT
CALDOU AS MUCH EMBARKASSZENT TO THE COMMUNISTS Aɔ TO GOVERNMENT,
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REUTERS AGREE THAT THEIR LOCAL CORRESPONDENT MAY APPEAR ON
Z.B.S. PROGRAMIE IF IT CAN BE ARRANGED, THEY ARE INSTRUCTING HIM TO GET
IN TOUCH WITH YOU TO DISCUSS THE PROJECT.
STEWART
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YUUK TELEGNAM NO. 976 TO PEKING ↑ ANTHONY GREY.
MANALER OF REUTERS OFFICE WENT TO CHINA TRAVEL SERVICE YESTERDAY
TO DISCUSS CHRISTMAS PARCELS FOR REY. CHINA TRAVEL SERVICE WERE
PULITE, IN MANKLO CONTRAST TO PREVIOUS DAY WHEN REUTERS' MESSENGER
WAS GIVEN HOSTILE RECEPTION CPARAGRAPH 1 OF YOUR TELEGRAM UNDER
REFERENCE),
2. MANAGER WAS RECEIVED BY A QUOTE LEADING CAURE UNQUOTE, WHO SAID
THAT THE REQUEST TO SEND PARCELS TO GREY WOULD HAVE TO BE PUT TO
PEKING. IN MANAGER'S PROSENCE CHINA TRAVEL SERVICE OFFICIAL #KOTE
TWO LEITERS, ONE TO PEKING, THE OTHER TO THE CHINESE CUSTOMS AT
SHUM CHUN, HE DECLINED TO CABLE REQUEST AND SAID HE WOULD LET
REUTERS KNOW THE RESULT IN A WEEK'S TIME.
FCO PLEASE PASS ROUTINE PEKING.
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ADDSSD TO PEKING TELEGRAM NUMBER 979 OF 18 DECEMBER REPEATED FOR
FYN TO HONG KONG.
ASTHONY GREY.
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HONG KONG TO PICK UP DECLARATION FORKS FOR CHRISTMAS PARCELS FOR GREY
FROM HIS HOTHER, NISS MCGUINN, AND REUTERS STAFF HE WAS TOLD QUOTE IF
YOU ARE FROM REUTERS TRYING TO SEND PARCELS TO GREY WE WILL NOT ACCEPT
THEM UNQUCTE,
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TELEGRAM NO 312 OF 5 DECEMBER 1967 REPORTED THAT YOU HAD SEKT GREY A
PARCEL OF WHISKEY AND CIGARS THROUGH THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE BUREAU WHICH
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3.
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PERMIT PARCELS TO BE SENT TO GREY.
4.
GRATEFUL IF YOU WOULD APPROACH NEWS DEPT AND FIND OUT AN ACCEPTABLE WAY
OF DELIVERING CHRISTMAS PARCELS.
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