Chinese, who have described the restriction as illegal, would
simply disregard it. On 8 October, three members of the
N.C.N.A. and one from the Chinese Ocean Shipping Corporation
attempted to do so to visit the s.s. Hangchow at Tilbury
docks and were turned back. To have imposed this restriction
and not to enforce it would simply make us ridiculous in the
eyes of the Chinese and expose us to criticism from public
opinion here.
5. We are engaged in a review of our restrictions on the
Chinese here in relation to Chinese restrictions on our
Mission in Peking. But it is almost certainly too soon for
a unilateral modification of our restrictions, including the
five-mile limit. Such a modification, if it were to be
decided on, would have to be part of a carefully thought out
programme which afforded reasonable expectation that a removal
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This would in any case
of restriction on our side would be matched by improved
treatment for our Office in Peking.
take time to work out. It will not therefore give the early
relief for which the police ask.
6. If therefore we cannot contemplate an immediate lifting
of our five-mile limit, can we accept less than 100% effec-
tive enforcement? As long as the restriction applies, we
must be seen at the diplomatic Mission itself to be in a
position to apply it effectively. Any thinning out at
Portland Place would rapidly come to the attention of the
British press who would require some explanation and justi-
fication. I doubt also if we can accept anything less than
complete enforcement in the case of N.C.N.A. They have
already shown that they are ready to flout the restriction;
they are the propagandists and the principal troublemakers,
and they would be ready to take the maximum advantage of any
slackening on our part.
7. It is, however, clearly desirable that we should try to
go some way to ease the police burden. I suggest therefore
that we tell the Home Office that the police need no longer
keep the Bank of China officials living at Spaniard's Close
and the Bank of China premises under surveillance. This
would mean a saving of 20 policemen out of a total of 81.
As far as we know the Bank of China officials have stuck to
their commercial business. Moreover, it is unlikely that
the removal of surveillance on them would attract public
The Home Office could be asked to ensure that
attention.
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keeping both the office and the private house under some
measure of surveillance.
8. We are unlikely to get any credit from the Chinese for
this partial removal of surveillance which they will not
regard as an easing of our restrictions. But it would help
our relations with the Home Office whose co-operation we
shall continue to need in this respect. To judge from my
conversations with Mr. James, they would probably be satisfied
with it as showing our appreciation of the difficulties under
which the police are working.
9.
The
Mr. Burley of the Immigration Department of the Home
Office has not taken up Mr. James's suggestion to get in
touch with me about relief for the immigration service.
only additional task the immigration services have undertaken
as a result of our restrictions is to provide immigration
officers with a list of the Chinese who are not allowed to
leave the country without special authority. There can be
no question of our relieving them now or in the immediate
future of this not very considerable burden.
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(James Kurray)
26 October, 1967.
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When he called on the Foreign Secretary this morning the Home Secretary
asked if we would consider easing the present burden on the Police who
were keeping very many Chinese under surveill- ance. He asked in
particular whether surveillance could be removed from the N.C.N.A. staff
house in Hampstead and the Bank of China.
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2. Mr. Brown said he would have this question examined urgently. He
certainly did not wish to prolong um.ecessarily the extra work the
Police had to undertake. The Secretary of State commented to me
afterwards that he would see dfficulty about the N.C.N.A. staff house,
but he would like the depart- ment to see whether the number of Police
watching this house and the Bank of China could in any way be reduced.
Was it still necessary, for example, to keep a 24-hour watch.
3.
Please submit on this.
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When he called on the Foreign Secretary this morning the Home Secretary
asked if we would consider essing the present burden on the Police who
were keeping very many Chinese under surveill- He asked in particular
whether surveillance could be removed from the N.C.N.A, staff house in
Hampstead and the Bank of China.
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2. Mr. Brown said he would have this question examined urgently. He
certainly did not wish to prolong unnecessarily the extra work the
Police had to undertake. The Secretary of State commented to me
afterwards that he would see difficulty about the N.C.N.A. staff house,
but he would like the depart- ment to see whether the number of Police
watching this house and the Bank of China could in any way be reduced,
Was it still necessary, for example, to keep a 24-hour watch.
3.
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I think you will know that the Home Secretary discussed with the Foreign
Secretary this morning how the burden on the police and the immigration
service
could be reduced. (The attached note indicates the extent of the polics
commitment and I think you know of the additional responsibilities
placed on the immigration service.) The outcome of this talk was that
the Foreign Secretary
agreed that the present requirements for the police and immigration
services should be reduced and I have been asked to get in touch with
you immediately to ascertain where the reductions in police strengths
can now be effected.
I am sending a copy of this letter to Burley in order that he may,
necessary, give you further details relating to the immigration service.
Yours sincerely,
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Surveillance of Chinese Officials
Surveillance is being undertaken by the Metropolitan police as follows:-
(a) Diplomatic Mission,
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Chinese are followed in the morning to the Bank of China where they work
and escorted back in the evening. Surveillance of the Chinese at the
news agency is particularly irksome as they move within central London
quite frequently. If the police could be relieved of both these duties,
33 officers (including 12 from Special Branch) would be released.
Further savings could be achieved if there was less strict surveillance
of the Mission.
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Am still strongly in favour of alternative (b). Alternative (a) risks
spoiling the ship for a ha-porth of tar. My reasons are as follows:
(1)Reciprocity in terms of conditions of life is really not
obtainable as between Peking and London and we have for a number of
years accepted this as unavoidable;
(11)Course (a) would still not represent a full return to status quo
ante and therefore would be unlikely to elicit a full response from the
Chinese;
(111)Course (a) would still be represented by the Chinese as
discriminatary whereas treatment in course (b) would bring them into
line I suppose with other Communist Missions;
(iv)In the end what matters is not so much the extent of Chinese travel
in England as retentions by us of ultimate control of exit visas;
(v)In my case there is no real reciprocity at present and for
presentation to public opinion at home it would in fact seem simpler to
go for a return to status quo rather than to construct artificial copy
of Chinese restrictions here;
(vi)Whatever we do, although we have reasonable expectations of a
Chinese response, this is in fact as act of faith. There
seems little point of prejudicing its success by taking it in two
stages.
2. In any event I presume it is intended that level of police
surveillance should also revert to status quo ante. This is an essential
part of the gesture as it has apparently caused disproportionate
resentment on the part of the Chinese.
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Following from de la Mare.
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In the light of your views we are on the point of recommending to
Ministers that the time has now come for a fairly substantial relaxation
of restrictions on our part.
2.
There remains the question of what form it should take. We might:-
(a) extend the present 5-mile limit to 12 miles (plus certain holiday
attractions), i.e. the restrictions pertaining in Peking before the
sacking of the Mission;
(b) return to our previous 35-mile limit.
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would be the most likely to prompt some gesture on their part. However
course (a) would be an attempt to show that we expected exact
reciprocity and, as such, good ground on which to take our stand both
with the Chinese and public opinion here. gives some flexibility in that
if the Chinese go some way but not far enough in their initial response
we have something left in rescrve Moreover it may be easier to justify
to people here who may have some doubts about the wisdom of removing
completely the August travel restrictions until we have had some
response from the Chinese side. Our preference is therefore for course
(a). If however you have strong views on this, I should be glad to have
them by 10 a.m. G.M.T. tomorrow.
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restrictions until we have had some response from the Chinese
wide. Our preference is therefore for course (a). If however
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Please see the Note of 10 October from the Office of the Chinese Chargé
d'Affaires which requests an extension of stay in Britain for Mr. Wang
Tuan-sheng of the N.C.N.A.
2. Our position on the question of granting extensions of stay to
similar people was explained by Mr. Bolland to Kr. Burley of the Home
Office in the former's letter of 20 September.
3. On Mr. Bolland's submission of 26 September Mr. Hohler approved the
granting of similar applications to members of the ex-patriate staff of
the Bank of China.
The annex to Mr. Murray's submission of 3 October lists measures in
force against British Subjects in China and against the Chinese in
London and gives possible lines of further action.
5.
Until the general position is reviewed I do not think a decision on the
individual application can be made.
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