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• No.250(9/13.D./1933)
Copies to: Singapore Hongkong Consuls.
From Minister for Foreign Affairs, of 13/2/1933.
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Sir,
British Legation,
Peking.
27th February, 1953.
I have the honour to submit the following report on
recent developments in connexion with the question of the
dual nationality of British subjects of Chinese race.
2.
It will be recalled that, acting in accordance with
my instructions, I addressed a letter on February 11th,
1930, to Dr.C.T.Wang, then Minister for Foreign Affairs,
enclosing a memorandum formulating the proposals of His
Majesty's Government for a final settlement of the
controversy regarding the national status in China of
these "Anglo-Chinese".
These proposals were based on
our recognition of the Chinese Nationality Law as applicable
to British subjects of Chinese descent subject to the
understanding that such persons paying transient visits to
China might be registered in His Majesty's Consulates and
protected for maximum periods of six months and on the
further understanding that certificates of denationalisation
under the Chinese Nationality Law would not be unreasonably
Copies of these papers were forwarded in
withheld.
my despatch Tour Series No. 38 of February 11th, 1930.
On
The Right Honourable
Sir John Simon, G.C.S.I.,K.C.V.0.,
etc., etc., etc.,
Foreign Office.