to avoid at this stage;
(b) it is unlikely that, in view of present
Communist insistence that H.M. Consuls
are private individuals, Chinese citizens
would be allowed to seek visas from them.
3. Any arrangement, therefore, to impose visa require-
ments, or to require passports issued by Communist authorities,
would at this stage be open to serious objection, quite apart
from the possible difficulty of issuing the necessary con-
fidential instructions on the matter to Consular posts in
Communist China. I should be grateful if you would consider
this aspect further and let me have your views.
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5. I agree in principle with the stages by which you
hot
propose to effect control, and I realise that the position may
already have arisen in which you may wish to proceed to stage
B forthwith. In that event, I should be glad of fuller details
of measures you envisage for controlling land frontier, arrivals
by train and removal of junks and small craft, also what
economic repercussions, if any, you anticipate.
6. A further examination of the Immigration Control
Ordinance, 1949, here has revealed certain points on which I
shall address you further separately.
To bongkong from areas still under court of
nalimalist fovtrumen
SECER.
(Copico sent to Foreign Office for transmission to Nanking and bustin).