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C. O.
Radford
11/11/48.
Mr.
Mr. McNulty
13/11/48.
Permt. U.S. of S.
Mr....
Wallace
22/11/48.
Mr. Sidebotham /11/48.
Par 3/12 f.
Mr...
Mr...
Parly. U.S. S.
Minister of State
Secretary of State
Your Reference.
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2 DRAFTS QUARTO
D.M. MacDOUGALL, ESQ., C.M.G.,
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
LOWER AL BERT ROAD,
HONG KONG,
Copy of (10)
FURTHER ACTION.
(12)
(11)
(6)
For Mr. Wallace's signature
Den har Dofull Dafilt
Please refer to my letter of 12th October,
1948, with which I enclosed a copy of a
Memorandum prepared by our Legal Advisers about
the alleged right of Chinese to enter Hong Kong.
I now enclose a copy of a letter from
Scott of the Foreign Office commenting on the
Memorandum. You will note that they have
modified their views as expressed in Scott's
letter of 23rd October, 1947 (a copy of which
was sent to you under cover of Mayle's letter
of 5th November, 1947), and now find themselves
in general agreement with the arguments and
conclusions reached in our Memorandum.
We are
therefore now agreed that the Chinese have no
right, prescriptive or otherwise, to enter or
settle in Hong Kong.
With regard to the Foreign Office point
about the political considerations involved in
restricting the entry of Chinese to Hong Kong,
I am drawing their attention to the fact that
control over the entry of Chinese arriving from
all countries other than China has already been
instituted (paragraph 2 of Hong Kong secret
savingram No. 62 of the 6th August, 1948, and
paragraph 3 of Hong Kong telegram No. 1010 of
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