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NATIONALITY BILL : POSITION OF BRITISH
CITIZENS IN FOREIGN AND OTHER COUNTRIES
1. I attach a copy of Hong Kong telegram No 549
drawing attention to the anomaly whereby British Citizens
by descent living in Dependent Territories are in a worse
position than their counterparts in non-Commonwealth
countries.
2. I am very well aware of the pressure under which
the Government has been put to protect the position of
people living in foreign countries.
However, I must
strongly support the position of those people in
Dependent and other Commonwealth countries. We would,
If thi of course, like to see their position evened up.
is not possible, I strongly hope that nothing further
will be done to increase the difference in treatment
which already exists.
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