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Your telno 41 and Bangkok telno 60 (from Craddock
NATIONALITY, LAW
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1. As explained in FCO telno 32 of 17 January we need to consider alternatives to the title CUKC. Assuming that If Ministers agree to the proposal for a separate category for colonial belongers it seems necessary, both for draft- ing purposes and to avoid creating separate
that. citizenships for each colony, the new nationality Act 'should introduce a collective title to apply to belongers of all the dependent territories. In addition The Act) will probably make express provision for a variant of this collective title to be used for administrative purposes,
including passports, in each territory.
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collective
2. Suitable title that would serve as a basis for any likely administrative variant would be "British Dependent
Territories Citizen" or "Citizen of the British Dependent
/Territories".
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