right to enter or settle in Hong Kong.
Perhaps you could let me have your further
on hese points of prescription - views when your Legal Advisers have had
time to study our Memorandum.
a cos
I am sending MacDougall/ of this
Memorandum and telling him that it has
the
been referred to/Foreign Office for their
further views,as ie suggested in the
Mémorandum.
We are anxious to reach finality on this issue as
soon as possible, as Communist progress in China
may well be bringing the day much nearer when
Hong Kong may be faced with an invasion of refugees,
including various 'undesirables', and the Hong Kong
Government is anxious to have its legal position
on the question discussed in the memorandum clearly
defined in advance and as early as possible. We
should, therefore, be grateful for your comments at
an early date.