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it is conceivable that refusal to deport might be
unwelcome to the Government of the country to which
the alien belonged. In the United Kingdom this
wide power is exercised with caution; and would not
be invoked against an alien merely because he was
persona non grata to his own Government, or as a con-
venient alternative to extradition proceedings.
The Secretary of State has to be satisfied that the
alien's removal is desirable in the interests of the
United Kingdom. On the other hand, the fact that his
deportation might put him in the hands of his Government
with the result that he might be punished for an
offence which might be regarded as "political" would
not be decisive against a deportation order being made,
though it would be one of the considerations to be
taken into account (see R. v. Home Secretary, ex parte
Duke of Chateau Thierry (1917) 1. K.B.922.)
One further point is raised by the corres-
pondence to which Sir William Joynson-Hicks wishes to
draw attention. In his note of 29th December last,
the Governor General of the Netherlands East Indies
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asks that the two Javanese agitators may be banished
from the Straits "so that they will be obliged to
return to Java, a phrase which suggests that a deportee
is necessarily sent to his own country. In the United Kingdom a deportation order does not require the alien
against whom it is made to proceed to any particular country, and it has been decided by the High Court that it cannot do so (see the Chateau Thierry case_supra).
All that the order requires is that the alien named in
it