CO129-535-3 Nguyen ai Quoc- request for extradition to Indo-China by French authorities 29-6-1931 - 26-1-1932 — Page 42

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In any further communication on this subject, please quote

No. W 14598/300/17

and address-

not to any person by name,

but to

The Under-Secretary of State,**

Foreign Office,

London, S.W.1.

boty DAGE

Sir,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W. 1.

6th January, 1932.

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With reference to your letter No. 82837/31 of the 20th

November last, I am directed by Secretary Sir John Simon

to transmit herewith, to be laid before the Secretary of S

State for the Colories, a copy of a semi-official letter

from the French Embassy regarding the case of Nguyen si Quoc.

2. In the view of the Secretary of State this letter

gives reasonable grounds for thinking that the eventual

enforcement of the orders issued against Quoc by the

Governor of Hongkong would not result in the execution of

Quoc at the hands of the French authorities in Indo-China.

In these circumstances Sir John Simon would propose,

subject to the concurrence of Secretary Sir Philip

Cunliffe-Lister, to inform the French Ambassador that Quoc

will be detained under surveillance in Hongkong pending

the result of his appeal to the Privy Council.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

@drowadmill,

امسة

ريح

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.