clamies to
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British subject because he or her father
was born in
Colony.
We pointed out that this co
accompanied by
oncession, if not souse modifications of t
the
That we
Chinese nationality law, would in practice mean
surrendered all claim to protect any
of the inhabitants of the Colonies in the
place to which most
China,
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than want to
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to v°,
would, according to the views
the Colonial fort!,
have a désastres
Effect on the loyalty of the Chinene
communities
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on any attempt to Anglicize We could not of course concere such noting on
dery the C.O., But if the
behalf of the
"fort really were driven to adopt it, could
they not make then offer conditional on
the Chinese entering into a
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us
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the nationality question??
Mr. Mart
the S.0. explied
all probability there would be to
opening for asking for a quid pro quo, a
if there were
there were other directions
in which it would have to be sought. But
the 7.0. hoped that,
once they
had
disarmed prejudice by concessions, they
would be able to negotiate a loterable
arrangement.
They
had
neon been
able to do so hitherto become the
Colonial Office, ok
the instigation of the