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Your telegram No. 66.
Ministers have agreed that we should reply
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The Hong Kong authorities will provide the-
in Hong Kong fen facilities requested to evacuate Portuguese civilian nationals from Macao to Hong Kong, to the extent they are able, having in mind the following considerations.
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persons of Chinese origin, other than those who are Portuguese nationals. (If the Ambassador asks for facilities for Chinese who are not, repeat not, Portuguese nationals, we should say that, bearing in mind the serious political problems involved, their reception would be entirely a matter for your discretion.) For your own information, you should, as you have suggested, refuse to receive any person whom you have grounds to believe may
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