CO129-604-5 Immigration- control over entry from China 4-3-1948 - 6-1-1949 — Page 19

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Radford

Mr.

11/11/48.

Mr. McNulty

13/11/48.

Permt. U.S. of S.

Mr. Wallace

22/11/48.

Mr. Sidebotham 22/11/48.

Mr...

Parly, U.S. S.

Minister of State

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Secretary of State

Your Reference

2 DRAFTS QUARTO

P.D. COATES, ESQ.,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

(10)

FURTHER ACTION.

Copy at (12)

Copy at (11)

For Mr. Wallace's signature

Please refer to Scott's letter,

F.14333/154/10 of 22nd October, 1948, about the

alleged right of Chinese to enter Hong Kong.

I think we are now agreed that the Chinese

have, in fact, no right, prescriptive or

otherwise, to enter or settle in Hong Kong.

So far as the political considerations

mentioned in the last paragraph of Scott's

letter are concerned, you are, of course,

aware that restrictions on the entry of Chinese

from countries other than China have already

been instituted. Such measures were mentioned

in paragraph 2 of Hong Kong's Political Report

for the fortnight ended 26th July, 1948, and

again, more recently, in their secret telegram

No. 1010 of the 6th November, 1948, about the

Parliamentary Question put down by Mr. Fitzroy

Maclean.

I have written to MacDougall on this

subject and said that, in view of the

political considerations, we should wish, if

circumstances permit, to have an opportunity of

consulting with you before a decision is taken

to introduce any further restrictions upon the

entry of Chinese to Hong Kong.