In any further communication on this subject, please quote
No. F 6260/738/10
and address---
not to any person by name,
but to-
"The Under-Secretary of State,"
Foreign Office,
London, S. W.1.
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29NOV 1930
COL. OFFICE
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FOREIGN OFFICE,
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27th November, 1930.
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Sir,
I am directed by Mr. Secretary Henderson to refer to
your letter No. 72770/30 of the 30th October enclosing copies
of two despatches from the Governor of the Straits Settlements
and High Commissioner for the Malay States together with the
draft of a despatch in reply and enquiring whether Mr.Henderson
coneurs in the term of this draft.
2. Mr. Henderson warmly agrees with Lord Passfield's view
that it is desirable to explain to the Governments of the Colonies
in the Far East the spirit and underlying principles of the policy
of His Majesty's Government towards China. I am to refer in
this connexion to Paragraph 3 of Foreign Office letter No.
F 926/926/23 of the 3rd April last in which the same view was
expressed and Lord Passfield was requested to communicate to
the Governors of those Colonies for their information and guidance
copies of a Foreign Office Memorandum on British policy in China.
With regard to the specific question of dual nationality the
policy of His Majesty's Government was settled, after prolonged
correspondence, largely in accordance with the views and wishes
of the Colonial Governments in question. Sir C. Clementi,
however, after negotiations with a view to carrying this policy
into execution had actually commenced, put forward a different
set of proposals which were communicated to the Foreign Office
in Colonial Office letter No. 72770/30 of the 11th June last.
The considerations which made it impossible to reopen a question
which had already been settled were explained in Foreign Office
letter/
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The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.