b) Present UK attitudes to immigration
a large-scale influx
would
make
macceptable. We therefore need to know exactly
пого
officers many peo and their dependents are involved. In
any case the Home Office are likely ・to be unwilling to interpret the cleanse Crown Service' provision very freely.
4. The main problem is that a
to
move
grant Brition Citizenship to these people would excite speculation about HMC's attitude to the territory's future We have already been accused of using the White Paper to distance ourselves from Hong Kong and facilitate a Chinese take-over. if
we publicly made these officers British citizens (and it would be impossible to do it secretly! this would, justifiably,
be seen as
an indication that HMG was
pessimistic about the territory's future.
(excluding the idea
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publicaking these people a special 6. We seem to have 34 alternatives:
a) To reject the request on the basis
regard re-absorption by
that we
China
as impossible. This would
Laffect morale an
among the officers, and, possibly, their loyalty to the UK.
that
b) To state that present circumstances do not make a grant of UK citizenship Poss necessary, but to undertake to posset
review the problem regularly. This might require an amendment to the Act at a later date and arouse considerable public interest.
e) To
does
it
ensure the Crown service idea include the officers, but that applies to all the Dependent
case')
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