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Mr Partridge, MVD Mr Holmes, CPO
Mr Clift, HKGD Mr Edwards, WIAD Mr Elliott, FED
Mr Hill, Legal Advisers Mr Addison, Home Office Mr Pakenham-Walsh, Home
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HONG KONG PASSPORTS
1. The attached draft memorandum follows discussion
within the FCO and with Home Office officials who are
putting it to the Home Secretary. We should wait for Mr
Whitelaw's agreement and take his views into
before the memorandum goes to the Prime Minister.
Background
account
2. The background is given in Mr Walter's'letter of 5
October from the Home Office to Mr Coles at No 10, in Mr
Bone's letter of 11 October to Mr Coles, and in Mr Coles
of 21 October to Mr Walters which was copied to Mr Bone.
proposed
A copy of Hansard on Lord Geddes'/amendment to the Nation-
ality Bill of 15 October 1981 is attached.
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