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(a) Paragraph 17(e) and paragraph 24(vi)
These are interdependent and have been suggested
in order to avoid any reference to racial
differentiation in the matter of residential
qualifications, which we felt on the whole to
be the best 'course from the point of view of
international presentation:
(b) Paragraph 25
This amendment is consequential upon those
in (a) above.
(c) Paragraph 37
Our reason for suggesting this amendment is
that the Foreign Office thought there was some
danger of the Chinese Government wondering whether the third sentence, as originally."
drafted, might connote a provision for a
possible curtailment of the lease of the New
Territories. They therefore suggested that it
might in the circumstances be better to define
more explicitly the usual condition attached to
the grant of leases in those territories. We felt there was substance in this suggestion, the
re-wording 'now proposed has been agreed with
the Foreign Office.
We have no spare copies readily available of the
original enclosures to your despatch of last October,
undistan a
but I ime you have a copy with you. I should therefore
add that we have also suggested that the following
amendments should be made to enclosure 7 to that despatch
(The Extent and Exercise of the Franchise): -
(a) Paragraph.4:
on page 2:
Deletion of last sentence
(b) Paragraph 7: The insertión of the word "local"
before "Portuguese" in the second sub-paragraph:
(c) Paragraph 2: The deletion of the last sub-
paragraph on the bottom of page 6 and the first.
two
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