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members of N.C.N.A. providing that the Home Secretary was
convinced that this was "conducive to the public good". There is a difficulty in expelling N.C.N.A., namely that any alien
resident in the United Kingdom for more than two years can
appeal to the Senior Metropolitan Magistrate against
deportation.
But we consider that in fact the Chinese would
not do so. So far the Home Secretary has expressed great
reluctance to act against the N.C.N.A. The time has, I think,
come to put maximum pressure on him to agree to do so if
necessary.
7.
A system of exit visas, which would apply to members of
the Chinese Mission as well as to N.C.N.A. and the Bank of
China, would be an exact parallel to the system now applying to members of our Mission in Peking. It is open to the objection referred to in the last sentence of paragraph 3, but we consider that if a Note were sent to the Chinese requiring an exit visa
It would be for all Chinese officials, they would obey it.
helpful if the Home Office co-operated by asking their Immigration Officers to check that exit visas had been obtained even though they had no legal powers to detain Chinese (e.g. diplomats) or were unwilling to exercise them in the case of
non-diplomats.
Copies to:
Sir D. Allen.
Private Secretary. Mr. Samuel.
Mr. Curson, J.I.A.D. Mr. Carter, C.0.
John Denson
(J. B. Denson) 21 August, 1967.