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Mr Waddington and Mr Renton met a group of MPs in the Foreign Secretary's room at the House last night in
dvance of tomorrow's debate on the Order in Council. there was a good turn out and most who attended felt that
the occasion had been worthwhile.
The following points need pursuing:
(a) On ex-Servicemen, Sir Peter Blaker said he thought that Section 4 (5) of the BNA would apply to most of the 400-odd people in question, since the majority had been members of a Volunteer defence force.
His own father had been a member of this force. Christopher D'Almada, a well-known Hong Kong Portuguese,
knew much of the background. Mr Renton commented that it had proved difficult to get at the facts, but he would investigate Sir Peter's claim further.
(b) Most of those present took Mr Waddington's point about the difficulty of granting British citizenship to the non-ethnic Chinese BDTCS. Cyril Townsend and Ivan Lawrence (in particular) argued that undertakings could be given to the non-ethnic Chinese, explaining that HMG would grant citizenship to those individuals who found themselves stateless after the expiry of their BOC status. Mr Waddington agreed to look at forms of words, though he and Mr Renton reminded the group that the Government had already said that it would expect the Government of the day to "consider sympathetically on a case by case basis in the light of the particular circumstances" whether to admit any British nationals forced to leave Hong Kong and having nowhere else to go.
(c) Sir Paul Bryan said it was important for the non-ethnic Chinese to understand how and when they should apply for Chinese nationality, and that HMG should press the Chinese government for an undertaking that such