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India without the necessity of prior reference to the Hong Kong Government. The concrete question now is whether any action on these lines would be emotions be practicable and politically advisable. These are

primarily matters for consideration by you and M.I.5., and we should be grateful for your collective advice.

If the conclusion reached is that no

approach should be made to the Government of India, it will be necessary to consider what reply should be returned by the Hong Kong

Government to the Government of India, bearing in mind that if the reply is unsatisfactory to the Government of India they may approach the Government in this country.

It may be useful for these matters to be discussed, and in thet case of course, we should be very ready to take part. The only view which I would myself express at the moment is that it would be asking altogether too much of the Indian Security authorities to expect them to identify without reference to the Hong Kong Government any Indian whose attitude during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong was unsatisfactory. The most they could be expected to do would be to identify those Indians who were in Hong Kong during the occupation and to refuse permission for such persons to return to Hong Kong without

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