(T 141/141/378)
FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.
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14th January, 1939.
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Dear Gent,
Please refer to your letter (53531/46/38) of the
2nd January to Dunbar regarding the grant of passport
facilities to Mrs. Vera Lock at Hong Kong.
The position is that the Home Office are interested
only in the nationality aspect of this question and we
agree with them that from that aspect there is no ground
for withholding facilities. But we do regard it as
definitely undesirable, having regard to present conditions
in China and in particular in the Canton area, that
facilities should be accorded to British subjects to proceed
there without definite evidence being available as to their
ability to maintain themselves.
This view applies even more forcibly in the case of
a woman travelling alone and with what appears to be a
G.E.J. Gent, Esq., D.S.0., 0.B.E.
very/