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Accordingly, although I have much sympathy with families long resident abroad who have kept up their British connection and value their status I am convinced that the time has come when some limit must be placed on the extent to which citizenship is transmitted. What was quite acceptable when the 1948 Act was prepared, long before we had an immigration problem, just is not acceptable now.
We have in fact suggested some changes in the law which will have the effect of helping British families overseas (eg for the transmission of citizenship by women born in the United Kingdom), and these are explained in the memorandum.
I should be glad to know within the next ten days that you and my other colleagues can agree with the proposals for legislation set out in H(79)44, so that we may press on with the drafting of the Bill.
I am sending copies of this letter to our colleagues on H Committee to the Attorney General, and to Sir John Hunt.
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