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Foreign Office by annexing to his minute of the 19th April a copy of his letter to

Mr. Roberts-Wray of that date. I have accordingly prepared yet another variant of the last paragraph of Mr. Roberts-Wray's draft reply to Mr. Beckett.

There is something attractive about

Mr. Beckett's ingenious suggestion that a person should be jointly nominated by the Chinese and ourselves to exercise jurisdiction in Kowloon ; and there ought not to be any very great difficulty about finding a suitable person with both Chinese and British nationality. But I share

Mr. Wallace's doubt whether the suggestion would be really palatable to the Governor of Hong Kong, if only on the ground that, in any circumstances involving conflict of loyalties, the probability would be that the Chinese loyalty would prevail. However, this is obviously a matter for discussion with the Foreign Office, for which a convenient opportunity will be provided when we have a meeting to go through the draft reference to the Law Officers.

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