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that you do not contest that it
would be in order, from the point of
view of international law, for the
British autnorities to issue passports ew,
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although you suggest that such passports
should not in fact be issued owing to
the same special reasons for which they
have not been issued in Hong Kong.
The Chinese population
in Malaya is not of the same fluctuating
character as in Hong Kong, and it i s
probably in general much easier to
establish whether or not a person of
Chinese race is a British subject or British
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protected person; we are not entirely
satisfied that the same considerations
should apply to Malaya as have been
applied
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