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Malaya and made to work for us against their
will, without even the concurrence of the
Chinese Government, whose nationals they are.
The fact that there is an express
provision in the Geneva Convention allowing
a captor to employ prisoners of war as
workmen rather points to the conclusion that
the absence of such a provision in the Hague
Convention about internees means that the
neutral host is not entitled to do the same
thing. Surely, with all the belligerents
interned by neutrals in previous wars there
must be precedents covering this point.
At all events, apart from the legal
aspect of the matter, I would strongly
recommend for political reasons that the
concurrence of the Chinese Government should
be obtained before the proposal is put into
effect.
March 20th, 1940.
It occurs to me that the case
the Graf Spee internees in
Argentina
may furnish
a
para-
llal. Subject to this I think we
Can meet Sir J. Brenan's of.
jections: please see draft.
Ashley Clarke.
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