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1. In your minute of 13 April you said in paragraph 3 that if the Home Office reverted to the idea of a letter from the Home Secretary to the Governor spelling out the limitations of new Clause 9 we should explain that it was not now necessary. You may recall that to make sure that any such letter did not go out in inappropriate terms I asked Home Office officials if we could see any such letter in draft. I then received a draft letter, and I told them that I would not comment till after the Secretary of State's return. I therefore feel obliged to say something to the Home Office. If the Chief Clerk does not wish to mention it in the letter he proposes to send to Mr Woodfield I hope that he will agree that I should at least tell Mr Addison what the position is.
If we are to say to the Home Office, as in paragraph 3 of your minute, that the Foreign Secretary made the position fully clear in Hong Kong I think we should give an indication of the line he took.
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W Jones
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Nationality and Treaty Department
21 April 1981
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This is the point I made
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