indicating that as the 1949 proposals have the effect,

in practice, of limiting the proposed franchise to a

very small proportion of the present population of Hong

Kong, the Secretary of State for the Colonies would be

glad if further consideration could be given to the

possibility of devising other means, whereby the

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process for the selection of unofficial members of

the Legislative Council would be placed on a broader

basis, in which non-British, as well as British,

interests could participate, i.e. by some process

of indirect election.

There will still be a number of nominated members

who will probably be nominated from the Chinese,

Fortuguese and Indian communities but no final decision

on this point has yet been taken,

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