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Secretary of State. Aquces as amended

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FOR TREASURY AND FOREIGN OFFICE CONCURRENCE∞

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Constitutional Changes ConstitutDE Ner

Your telegram No.406.

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my manner in too. 25) I accept your views on points (e) and

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(e) agree that in view of your explanation

and I there is no need to amend proposals on point (e).

3. In connection with point (b) I accept

your view that solution proposed in my telegram

No.329 would not be satisfactory, and I note

that proposed differentiation would be accepted

by local Chinese. I am afraid however that if

this differentiation were made there would be

criticism outside Hong Kong that this action was

inconsistent with all modern conceptions of

equality of treatment and opportunity as between

Europeans and Chinese and that such criticism

could not adequately be met by explanation on

basis of Americans and non-British Europeans

concerned being birds of passage. I feel

therefore that non-British Chinese community must

be treated the same as non-British European and

American communities in the matter of residential

qualification for membership or franchise.

As regards point (f), I presume that

literacy qualification will debar large prop-

ortion of working classes from voting for some

time to come. In view of this, and as the trade

union