ality. ntil t.ey are prepared to do this
they must either refrain from returning to
China or, if they go there, must accept
both the disadvantages as well as the advan-
tages of their dual nationality.
# Rlowell
10
4.3.32
3
Sir J. Maffey.
I hope that you will read Mr. Costar's
minute of 5/3/34, which gives an excellent summary
matter.
of the whole westion.
A political question
of some importance - or what would once have been
considered of some importance is involved in the
proposal to ärop our claims in respect of the
protection of "Anglo-Chinese" in China.
just the kind of step that once
Palmerston's time, for example
-
-
denounced as an ignoble surrender;
in Lord
It is
would have been
but in
present circumstances, seeing that the Chinese
will not yield the point and there is no question
of our attempting to coerce them, 1
suppose that
we had better swallow the dose with the best grace
that we can assume.
below.
? Write to the F.0. as in the draft
At once
7 15 20 2.0. note (15) - bous:
Kt 7/3/34
1/1
13 MAR 1934