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Territories". In fact, there is no obvious practical

alternative collective title that would differ significantly from these if we

o avoid

variants

the word colony/colonial as most governors recommended. 3. We should be grateful for your views on the likely Chinese reaction to this collective title in relation to Hong Kong and to possible tiles that could be used by Hong Kong for administrative purposes e.g. "British (Hong Kong) Citizen" and "British Dependent Territories Citizen (Hong Kong)". Since the reference to Hong Kong in these administrat tive titles would be partly separated from the word

urae "citizen" these form should be less open to the objections you have suggested. Is this right?

4.

Should China (or anybody else) try to maintain

that the use of such terms was tantamount to

creating an individual citizenship for Hong Kong, we

could point out that they were only variants used for administrative purposes of a general title which could not be interpreted as creating a separate Hong Kong citizenship. Moreover we are at present inclined to the view that if the course wer be fold

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should simply explain that there would need to be a

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single collective title for the Act which might be (eg

"British Dependent Territories Citizen" or similar but that a variant of this to allow the inclusion of

the name of the Dependency could be used for administrative purposes.

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