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SUBJECT: FALKLAND ISLANDS (BRITISH CITIZENSHIP) (NO 2) BILL

LORD BRUCE OF DONNINGTON

警

1. In your letter of 17 August to Christopher Howells

you enclosed a draft Second Reading speech on the assump-

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tion that Ministers would agree that the Government

spokesman in the Lords should set out the objections

to this Bill, even though it might well be passed. We

have deferred commenting until we could obtain the views

of our Ministers on the handling of the Bill in Parliament

2.

I am now writing, in Christopher's absence, to say

that our Ministers take the view that we should allow the

Bill to go through without objection, since whatever

attitude the Government takes the Bill is almost certain

to get through anyway.

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3. Our Ministers feel that in the Hong Kong context our

efforts should be devoted to explaining why there is no

similarity between the case of the Falklands and that of

Hong Kong and therefore why no precedent would be set by

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