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DEPARTMENTAL NO. 1
MAY 1945
FROM CHUNGKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE.
D: 10.10 a.m. GMT 19th May 1945.
Sir H. Seymour.
No. 489.
18th May 1945.
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1.35 p.m. DBST 19th May 1945.
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Important.
Your telegram No. 391. F761 // 1107/10
I agree about the undesirability of seeking an advance assurance from Chinese authorities. Most of civil servants are presumably British subjects and it would weaken our position in regard to other British subjects of Chinese race if we encouraged the Chinese Government to think that the decision rested with them as to which British subjects should or should not be allowed to return to their country origin.
2. I am equally doubtful about your paragraph 1(b), since the Chinese Government could not fail to notice that we were recruiting in China persons of Chinese race for the re-establishment
But of a British colony whose recovery is desired by China. I will await Sanson's arrival before expressing any final views
on this point.
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