}
Commonwealth Office S.W.1.
Our ref: HB 18/55 UNCLASSIFIED,
18 December 1967
10
(9)
11 December.
(9/6/1)
Will you please refer to your letter CW1/67 9/353/1(5) of
We have studied the draft of your proposed reply to Sir George Sinclair and have ventured to suggest certain amendments which we have embodied in a further draft, a copy of which I enclose with this letter.
We are, of course, pore concerned with the Hong Kong end of this exercise, particularly the part played by the Hong Kong Immigration Department. I am not clear what point Mr. Jackson-Lipkin is trying to make in (c) of the penultimate paragraph of his letter of 13 November, but I suggest he should be put right on the subject of the number of British subjects in Hong song.
It may be that what he is saying is that very few of those whose claim to British nationality rests solely on their Hong Kong birth, have any legitimate "call upon the political conscience of this Kingdom".
If you have any queries on the enclosed draft, perhaps we could clear them by telephone. It is, of course, for you to determine its final form.
LAST
RCF.
REF.
W.M. Lee sq., Home Office, Princeton House, 271, High Holborn, London, W.C.1.
(A.W. GAMINARA)