the consent of the Chinese Government
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to the application to British protected
persons of Chinese race of any arrangement
that may be agreed upon with regard to
British subjects of Chinese race.
4. In adopting this policy
His Majesty's Government are following
the principle which has now been
embodied in Article 4 of a Convention
on the Conflict of Nationality Laws
adopted by the Conference for the
Codification of International Law,
held at the Hague in March and April
last
of the year. This Article provides
that "A State may not afford
diplomatic protection to one of its
nationals uguinst a State whose
nationality such person also possessed
I am of opinion that the Chinese Government
should be pressed to racognize this
principle-in Valaya, and that it should
HMG would therefore be
on
· from ground in insisting,
if need arises,
that
be
the/