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the consent of the Chinese Government

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to the application to British protected

persons of Chinese race of any arrangement

that may be agreed upon with regard to

British subjects of Chinese race.

4. In adopting this policy

His Majesty's Government are following

the principle which has now been

embodied in Article 4 of a Convention

on the Conflict of Nationality Laws

adopted by the Conference for the

Codification of International Law,

held at the Hague in March and April

last

of the year. This Article provides

that "A State may not afford

diplomatic protection to one of its

nationals uguinst a State whose

nationality such person also possessed

I am of opinion that the Chinese Government

should be pressed to racognize this

principle-in Valaya, and that it should

HMG would therefore be

on

· from ground in insisting,

if need arises,

that

be

the/