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Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr. Parkinson.
Mr. Tomlinson.
Sir C. Bottomley.
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State.
DRAFT.
FURTHER ACTION.
certificates of denationalization
will
without cunnecessary delay, should be issued/at Chinese
issued at
Consulates in the peninsula to
any person in possession of a
British passport.
The S. MS.
funliffe
4. Sir Philip Gunli
Lister concurs in Sir John Simon's
view that the British Minister in
also
China should, endeavour to obtain
an authoritative ruling from the
Chinese Government as to the
national status under Chinese law
of the children of denationalized
Chinese.
5. Subject to the reception
of satisfactory assurances from the
Chinese Government in regard to
the points raised in the two
preceding paragraphs, the Secretary
of State sees no objection to the
issue of formal instructions to
British Consuls in China in the
sense suggested by Sir Miles Lampson
in