CO129-523-4 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 13-11-1929 - 10-1-1931 — Page 31

In any further communication on this subject, please quote

No. F 6260/738/10

and address---

not to any person by name,

but to-

"The Under-Secretary of State,"

Foreign Office,

London, S. W.1.

RECEIVED

29NOV 1930

COL. OFFICE

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FOREIGN OFFICE,

S. W. 1.

27th November, 1930.

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72725/80

seaet

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Sir,

I am directed by Mr. Secretary Henderson to refer to

your letter No. 72770/30 of the 30th October enclosing copies

of two despatches from the Governor of the Straits Settlements

and High Commissioner for the Malay States together with the

draft of a despatch in reply and enquiring whether Mr.Henderson

coneurs in the term of this draft.

2. Mr. Henderson warmly agrees with Lord Passfield's view

that it is desirable to explain to the Governments of the Colonies

in the Far East the spirit and underlying principles of the policy

of His Majesty's Government towards China. I am to refer in

this connexion to Paragraph 3 of Foreign Office letter No.

F 926/926/23 of the 3rd April last in which the same view was

expressed and Lord Passfield was requested to communicate to

the Governors of those Colonies for their information and guidance

copies of a Foreign Office Memorandum on British policy in China.

With regard to the specific question of dual nationality the

policy of His Majesty's Government was settled, after prolonged

correspondence, largely in accordance with the views and wishes

of the Colonial Governments in question. Sir C. Clementi,

however, after negotiations with a view to carrying this policy

into execution had actually commenced, put forward a different

set of proposals which were communicated to the Foreign Office

in Colonial Office letter No. 72770/30 of the 11th June last.

The considerations which made it impossible to reopen a question

which had already been settled were explained in Foreign Office

letter/

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The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.