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Your telno 41 and Bangkok telno 60 (from Cradock): NATIONALITY LAW.

As you will realize from FCO telno 32 of 17 January

alternative la は we need to consider to

assumption that it will be

s potatr the title CUKC in any form. We are

comments therefore considering titles in the light of points raised

by Hong Kong and other dependent territories the titles

to reply to

in in, FCO telno 19 Personal to Governors. We should be

grateful for your views on the likely Chinese reaction to

Brinish Citizen (Hong Kmy)-

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two possibilities::"British (Hong Kong) Citizen" or Jor

"British Dependent TerritorysCitizen (Hong Kong)". Since

the reference to Hong Kong will be partly separate from the

two, these formulae should be less open to the objections

you have suggested. Is this right?

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