John James Cowperthwaite Quote

What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being good last year, and bribed, like children, into being good next year. I myself repudiate this paternalistic, indeed colonialist, attitude as a gross insult to our people


March 27, 1968, page 215. - Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council


What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being...

What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being...

What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being...

What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being...