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COLONIAL SECRETARIAT,
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You may like to have the attached
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copy of a paper we have just agreed here on the subject of deporting Commmist prisoners and detainees. This is of course relevant to our tel.no.1863.
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If we were to try an initial horse- deal over Grey, as suggested in your telegram no.369, the two N.C.N.A. officials would presumably be the only bait to be offered, and the objection to the use of the word "deportation" might be less than is argued
in the paper.
If in due course we got on to offering a rather wider group, perhaps in the interests of. getting more of you away, I should myself have doubts about proposing "school officials" (cp.para.17 of the paper) as I would expect this to be taken as provocative, In general, as you will see from my handwritten comments, I hav
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reservations about one or two points of detail In the paper, but nevertheless you may find it useful. The Governor's line is broadly that the more people we deport to China, the merrier; provided that we can be pretty sure we won't get them back, now or in the foreseeable future.
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