reportera are sentenced the Chinese will take
further action against the Reuters correspondent
Until the results of the trial are known we
shall not be in a position to decide how
severe measures against N.C.N.A. in London
should be. I am glad, however, that your
officials have agreed that until then approval
for the entry visa of one replacement for the
N.C.N.A. should be withheld and likewise the
extension of the residence permit of another.
I realise the objections you see in principle
to the expulsion of the N.C.N.A. altogether
and to refusing to extend the residence permits
of N.C.N.A. personnel already in this country
and I am willing not to press for this at the
present stage. I think our aim, however,
should be to reduce the expatriate staff of
the N.C.N.A. Office to one (the direct equi-
valent of British press representation in
Peking). I therefore hope that you will agree
that when the trial of N.C.N.A. personnel in
Hong Kong is over, the application for an
entry visa for a replacement in the N.C.N.A.
office should be refused, and all future
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applications for replacements refused and
that in addition applications for re-entry
visas by N.C.N.A. personnel in London who
wish to proceed on leave and then return
should also be refused.
I think this is
the least we can do and in certain circum-
stances (paragraph 6 below) more may be
necessary.
5. The reasons for imposing a system of exit
visas on Chinese officials in this country are
set out fully in the memorandum sent to your
Department on 22 July. I believe that such
a system would act as a deterrent against
the holding of British subjects in China,
official and otherwise, and would thus afford
them vital protection. Because the Chinese
operate a system of exit visas, they can at
any time hold foreigners hostage and they
have made it quite clear that they are
prepared to make full and unscrupulous use of
their power. For this reason I would propose
to inform the Chinese Chargé d'Affaires that
all Chinese officials in Britain will in
future require an exit visa from the Foreign
Office before leaving this country. I fully
realise that, if the Chinese disregard this
instruction, we can take only diplomatic action
against them and have no powers of detention.
Nevertheless, I hope that you will feel able
to instruct your Department to cooperate by
asking Immigration Officers to check that
Chinese officials have Foreign Office
authorisation before leaving this country and
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telling the Foreign Office if there are any
infringements of the system. The more
obvious they make their checking, the more
effective the deterrent is likely to be.
6. Your agreement to the above requests
would meet our most urgent needs but I think
that we should also agree on certain further
action to be taken, for example if the
Chinese retaliated more strongly against the
Reuters correspondent in Peking by imprisoning
him on a trumped up charge or expelling him
from China after subjection to humiliation
or maltreatment. If this happened I think
we should be under strong parliamentary and
public pressure to take positive and immediate
action against the N.C.N.A. in London by
expelling all their expatriate staff. I
believe this could be fully justified as
"conducive to the public good" and indeed
that it would not be understood if we had
to admit that we had power to take such
action but were unwilling to use it. I very
Buch hope therefore that you will feel able
to reconsider your position and to agree
in principle that firm action will be taken
if the need arises.
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Before he left for Norway this morning. the Foreign Secretary approved
the enclosed minute to the Home Secretary about retaliatory action
against the Chinese in this country. Te were unable to get this minute
signed by
Mr. Brown before his departure. I am therefore
sending it to him unsigned with the assurance
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that it has the Foreign Secretary's approval.
D. 2. J. Dowler, Esq.,
Home Office.
(D. M. Day)
Private
Secretary
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The submission and minutes below refer
to a Foreign Office system of exit visas for
Chinese officials in Britain. This proposal
is set out more fully in paragraph 5 of the
Fay draft minute to the Home Secretary below.
Despite the Home Office's hesitation about
this proposal, the department feel that such
a system could be made to work. If the
Chinese try to disregard the system, which
would be introduced by means of a note to the
Chinese Office, the "diplomatic action"
referred to in the minute to the Home secretary
could, for instance, take the form of a threat
to declare a member of the legation persona non
grata. The Home Office's reations to this
idea at official level are to be found at
paragraphs 7 and 8 of the record at flag D.
محمد
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(D.I. Morphet) 11 August. 1967.
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I have been discussing with officials what action
we can take in retaliation against Chinese nationals
in this country bearing in mind the position of
the Reuters man in Peking and the possibility of further
harassment, for example, of business men, technicians
and ships' crews.
2. On the wider issues discussion is continuing
with, amongst others, the Board of Trade.
One
question is whether travel restrictions should be
placed on the Chinese Commercial office and members
of trading corporations. For the present, however,
we should pursue the problem of the New China News
Agency in the light of the Home Secretary's minute
to you.
3. It seems clear that the Home Secretary will
not agree at the moment to turning out the
N.C.N.A. lock, stock and barrel.
Since his minute
/to you
2
to you, he has confirmed this in private
conversation.
I suggest, however, that we keep
up the pressure in anticipation or a situation
arising when there may be a public demand for drastic
action.
4.
Meanwhile, three other possibilities are open.
First, the Home office can refuse to renew the
residence permits of members of the N.C.N.A.
Second, the Home Office can refuse re-entry visas
for members of the N.C.N.A. leaving the country
Third, the Home Urfice can refuse
temporarily.
visas for newcomers.
5. I doubt whether we can budge the Home Secretary
on the first of these (although delay can be used
as effective harassment from time to time), but we
should go for the second and third. This would run
the N.C.N.A. down over a period. There might be
no publicity for this but we should have a
defensible position in Parliament.
6. We also propose a Foreign Office system of
weit
entry visas. We can do this on our own but
Home office co-operation would be necessary.
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7. I think it would also be wise to discover
the whereabouts and activities of the 2,500
Chinese nationals in this country. I would not
like to admit that we do not know when our own
subjects in China are exposed. Enquiries would
also alert them to our interest and represent a
mild form of harassment. However, officials are
not convinced on this and the Home Secretary might
be reluctant to set in motion the considerable
administrative action involved.
8. No firm decisions are required at the moment.
But a minute to the Home Secretary on the lines
attached will enable officials to continue their
discussions. We should then have a thorough
round-up on your return to the office after the
holiday.
WTR
William Rodgers
11 August, 1967.
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Problem
Retaliation against the Chinese in Britain
The Home Secretary has replied to the Secretary of
State'a minute and the memorandum from the Department about
retaliation against the Chinese in Britain. Discussions have
also been held at official level. If progress is to be made,
a further approach to the Home Secretary will be necessary.
Recommendation
2. I recommend that the Secretary of State should send a
further minute to the Home Secretary on the lines of the
attached draft.
Background and Argument
3. The Secretary of State wrote to the Home Secretary on
19 July asking for his agreement in principle to take certain
action against the N.C.N.A. London Office if the need arose.
The Department also sent a memorandum to the Home Office on
22 July on the subject of exit visas for Chinese officials in
Britain. The Home Secretary's reply of ↑ August was, as the
Secretary of State has minuted, "not very helpful".
4. We have now held further discussions with the Home Office
at official level (see record attached). In some ways the
situation is worse than we thought. The Home Office have made
it clear that not only are they unwilling to expel members of
the N.C.N.A., but they are also unwilling to refuse to renew
residence permits (which is done on an annual basie) or even
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to refuse the automatic granting of re-entry visas if
these are applied for before the persons concerned leave
this country.
In effect, this means that the present members
of the N.C.N.A. Office can stay here for as long as they like
provided that they always apply for re-entry visas before
going on leave.
5. On other matters, such as refusing new visa applications,
delaying approval for residence permits and asking Immigration
Officers to check for exit visas, if we wish to introduce such
a system, the Home Office officials were as helpful as they
could be within the limitation imposed by the Home Secretary's
known views. They pointed out however (see paragraph 15 of
record) the considerable administrative labour involved in
obtaining details about the 2,500 non-official Chinese nationals
in this country and urged that they should not be pressed to
do so unless we contemplated asking the Home Secretary to take
action against this category of person. I see no advantage in
doing so, as it will have no effect on the actions of the
Chinese Government towards British subjects in China, and in
any case the Home Secretary would clearly be even more dis-
inclined to use his powers against such persons than against
official Chinese.
6.
We have told the Home Office at official level that we
will probably wish to return to the charge about agreement in
principle to expel members of the N.C.N.A. and to obtain the
agreement of the Home Secretary for the other action which we
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wish to take immediately.
To confirm undertakings at
official level and to press the Home Secretary for a
change of position on N.C.N.A. and co-operation over exit
vises, a further minute from the Secretary of State to
the Home Secretary is clearly desirable.
7. There are various other measures which we wish to
consider taking against the Chinese in this country which
do not, at this stage, involve the Home Office.
these is proceeding separately.
Action on
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FOREIGN OFFICE, 8.W.1.
23 August, 1967.
I attach a list of the Chinese et present in London, who are travelling
en diplomatic er official passports. This list was produced at great
speed and I am told that there my possibly be one or two people missing
from it. This will be shocked and a revised list sent to you if
necessary.
2. I understand that the Home Office has agreed to circulate this list
to all the necessary Immigration Officers and to ask them to ensure that
all those on this list have exit permits issued by the Foreign Office
before leaving this country.
8. L. I. Burley Eng.,
Home Office,
(D. C. Wilson)
For Matern Department
Princetom Henso,
271-7 High Holborn,
F.C.1.
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