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to avoid at this stage;

(b) it is unlikely that, in view of present

Communist insistence that H.M. Consuls

are private individuals, Chinese citizens

would be allowed to seek visas from them.

3. Any arrangement, therefore, to impose visa require-

ments, or to require passports issued by Communist authorities,

would at this stage be open to serious objection, quite apart

from the possible difficulty of issuing the necessary con-

fidential instructions on the matter to Consular posts in

Communist China. I should be grateful if you would consider

this aspect further and let me have your views.

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if Above cnsionations would not preclude abophon of your purposals in respect of persons /wreading

5. I agree in principle with the stages by which you

hot

propose to effect control, and I realise that the position may

already have arisen in which you may wish to proceed to stage

B forthwith. In that event, I should be glad of fuller details

of measures you envisage for controlling land frontier, arrivals

by train and removal of junks and small craft, also what

economic repercussions, if any, you anticipate.

6. A further examination of the Immigration Control

Ordinance, 1949, here has revealed certain points on which I

shall address you further separately.

To bongkong from areas still under court of

nalimalist fovtrumen

SECER.

(Copico sent to Foreign Office for transmission to Nanking and bustin).