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Our reference GNN 340/1(13)
Date 16 Sentember 1982
PROPOSAL BY HONG KONG UNOFFICIAL COUNCILLORS TO DESCRIBE BDTCS AS 'BRITISH NATIONALS' IN PASSPORTS
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Since we spoke on the telephone on 14 September I exnect you
Attached will have seen Mr Pym's minute of that date to Mr Whitelaw pronosing
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with reference to Mr Hyde's letter of 31 August. that the above question, which is the subject of a difference of view between our Departments, should await the outcome of the Prime Minister's visit to Hong Kong.
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You kindly agreed on the telephone amendments to the Prime Minister's Brief which would fulfil Mr Pym's suggestion, and ! enclose a copy of the corrigendum to Brief No PMVW(82) which we discussed and subsequently managed to get to the Cabinet Office by the deadline on 15 September.
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I also enclose in "esponse to your request the original Brief with an apology that it bears amendments in manuscript scribble. It is a cony of the only copy in this Department and I trust you will be able to see how it read originally.
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