*CIRCULAR.
CONFIDENTIAL.
30301, 1,34 Geal.
to all bobs. + Prots. (mnicluding talta) and
Tanganyika.
to Palestine in separate bonf. desp. to Sarawak, B. h. B. Co., & I wake yout Agent, bonf. lff. infe
Miscellaneous No. 447.
Sir,
Downing Street,
15th September, 1931.
I have the honour to inform you that my attention was called a short time ago to the diversity of the provisions governing the deportation of British subjects from various parts of the Colonial Empire and that I appointed a departmental Committee
“to consider and report what conditions should govern the deportation of British subjects from the Colonies not possessing responsible government, Protectorates and Mandated Territories, and to draft model provisions for inclusion in Colonial legislation on the subject." I now enclose, for your consideration, a copy of the report of that
Committee.
2. I appreciate that in some territories there may be local difficulties in ne way of the adoption of the model Ordinance in its entirety, and in those cases I should be obliged if those difficulties could be fairly stated. I realize also that there may be case in which a political agitator who would be comparatively harmless and politica!l», unemployed in this country may prove to be a danger in one of the more distant parts the Empire, and in which persons who in this country would gravitate to the work-house or secure some other form of public assistance may create or aggravate a poor-white problem in a Colonial territory. Nevertheless, there is much to be said for the view that Colonial Governments ought not to use the United Kingdom as a dumping ground for their "undesirables," merely in order to rid themselves of nuisance or a financial burden, and that deportation is not always a suitable mean
dealing with such cases.
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3. In this country, no British subject can be refused admission and no British subject can be deported, and it seems to me not unreasonable, in 'the circumstances, that consideration should now be given to the limitation of the right of Colomal
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