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Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Sir C. Parkinson.
Sir G. Tomlinson.
Sir C. Bottomley.
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State.
DRAFT.
FURTHER ACTION.
To
Life Insurance Company Limited.
preclude the appointment of Chinese
citizens as agents or managers of branches
in China would affect most adversely
genuine Straits-born Chinese. It is also
felt that the exclusion of those unable
to obtain the denationalisation certifi-
cates would be an intolerable hardship
upon a section of the Malayan community
justly
which looks upon itself as British, and
considers it is entitled to the protec-
tion and benefits accruing from domicile
under the British flag.
Mr. Small, the Governor's
Deputy in Singapore, suggests that
whatever rules may be finally decided
they should be sufficiently wide in
general scope to permit the judging of
individual cases on their own intrinsic
merits. He thinks that the local
Government is the best judge of what is
a genuinely British, locally incorporated
company, and urges that an Ambassador's
licence should in no circumstances be
refused to such a company without prior
consultation with the Government
concerned.
There would seem to be no great
objection to these proposals in so far as
they exclude from British extraterritorial
rights European and other organisations
which at present enjoy British protection
merely by right of registration in the
British Empire, since this would not
seriously
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