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BDTC status and not also his new status. His object in renouncing would always be to divest himself of British nationality and there
would be no point in abandoning one form of it while retaining the
other. So far as this Office is concerned, therefore, we have no
interest in including a provision on the lines mentioned in your
paragraph 13 and we think it need only be pursued if you feel the
Chinese would find its omission offensive.
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J Pakenham-Walsh
Legal Advisers Branch
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