DSR 11 (Revised)
Minuts/letter/teleletter/despatch/nxte
DRAFT:
FROM:
Mr R Bone
DEPARTMENT:
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
TO:
Top Secret
Secret
Confidential
Restricted
CJ Walters Esq
Private Secretary
Home Office
Queen Anne's Gate
London SWI
TEL. NO:
TYPE: Draft/Final 1+
Reference
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Your Reference
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PRIVACY MARKING
.......In Confidence
CAVEAT.
SUBJECT: HONG KONG PASSPORTS
Mr Pym has seen John Coles' letter of 21 October and has
asked me to make the following points as a possible basis
for further advice to the Prime Minister
Enclosures-flag(s)...........
We should probably start by picking up
the Home Secretary's point about safeguarding our general
position and ensuring that long Kong does not become
a precedent for other dependent territories - still less
for British Overseas Citizens, British Protected Persons
and other residuals.
The recognition by our legal advisers and yours that there
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is no purely legal objection to including the words
'British national' in Hong Kong passports could, if
pursued to its logical conclusion lead to descriptions of
nationality on the lines -
British national: British citizen
British national: British Dependent Territories
Citizen [name of dependency]
British national: British Overseas Citizen
British national: British Protected Person
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