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Please note that we see these titles as administrative

variants, for use, in passports, etc, in place of the single

collective title for all colonial belongers which we think

will be virtually essential for drafting purposes in the

Act. But the statutory single collective title could be

to

referred if necessary, to answer allegations from other

interested countries that an individual citizenship for an

particular territory was being created by the Act.

4. In the light of the replies to FCO telno 19, and

wit

impossible

assuming that the retention of CUKC proves our preliminary

view is that you should try to persuade the Home Office that

in the White Paper they should go no further than to announce

a 3-category scheme and suggest a possible collective title

for all colonial belongers. The one that would accommodate

the two administrative titles mentioned in para 2 above and

Likely alternatives

any

probably there that might be preferred is "Brit sh

Dependent Territories Citizen" or something very close to

this. In fact, if "colony" and "colonial" are to be avoided

as most Governors wish, and we are to avoid creating

individual citizenships for each dependency, which has some

dangere, there is really little alternative to a collective

title similar to this. The White Paper could simply go on

for to say that the passports and other administrative purposes

the collective title would be adapted to incorporate the

name of individual territories as appropriate (though the

form of the adaptation would have to be the same for all

dependencies). This would effectively give an opportunity

for reactions from dependencies, whose legislatures would

not have been consulted before the White Paper, before a

of coutre decision is taken on the administrative title which would

become the one in common usage.

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