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of significant numbers being turned away at the ports (which would include reminding them of the facility for obtaining prior entry clearance voluntarily as a number of Australians etc already do).

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As for extending the Scheme outside the Commonwealth, I understood that you will be inviting your Ministers to conclude that it would be very difficult to exclude particular non-Commonwealth countries without appearing unacceptably discriminatory, and therefore that it would have to be offered to all or none (with a strong steer towards the latter). have no difficulty with this.

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Finally, on a point of detail, we think that Canada and Hong Kong should be listed, as well as Australia, as offering broadly similar facilities to British WHMs.

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