OUTWARD TELEORAN
54463/49
Cypher (0.7.p.)
TO HONG KONG (8ir A. Grantham)
FROM S. OF S.... COLONIES.
Sent 6th May, 1949.
01.30 hrs.
PRIORITY
No.471
Secret.
:
27/50
Addressed to Governor Hong Kong,
Repeated to Commissioner General, South East Asia,
No.248 (please pass copy to Governor Singapore),
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High Commissioner, Federation of Malaya,
No.523,
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Governor Singapore, No.426, H.B.M. Nanking.
1.
My telegram No.420.
Foreign Political Parties.
Please see paragraph 4 of Foreign Office telegram No.460 to Nanking repeated to you as my telegram No.469.. After consideration of Nanking views I will reply finally to your despatch No.14.
2.
Meanwhile I am sending by priority savingram the comments of my legal advisers on your draft Bill, These comments include suggestions for incorporating, in a somewhat different manner, the provisions of 9.10 of Singapore Societies Ordinance, thus permitting simple membership of foreign societies which have no activity or organisation in the Colony.
3.
I share the preliminary view expressed by the Foreign Office in paragraph 5 of their telegram No.460 to Banking that the insertion of a provision of this king kind will be essential.
(Copies sent to Foreign Office for
repetition to Nanking).
Copies sent to:-
Foreign Office
Mr. P.D. Coates.