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We feel that proof of a negative
proposition of this kind would be too
much to ask of liong Kong or anybody
else.
2. Moreover, from your reference
to Hong Kong as the "potential
prosecutors", we are not sure that you
have fully appreciated the Colonial
Office point of view.
3.
Hong Kong has all along
declared itself willing to proceed against
Nemazee in the Courts, if any evidence
could be produced on wach a charge could
be based under the Hong Kong laws. But
the Colonial Office does not contend
that he should not be denied travelling
facilities unless evidence of this
kind can be produced.
4. The situation in 1923 was that
while there was no evidence on which
proceedings could be taken against him
in the Hong Kong Courts, we were
satisfied that he was then very deeply
"oncerned