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MINISTRY OF OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
ELAND HOUSE, STAG PLACE
LONDON S.W.1
TELEPHONE :ICONWXZGWE
834-2377 Ext 363
17 December 1969
T J O'Brien Esq MC
Financial Policy and Aid Department
FCO
Dear O'Brien,
Michael Cahill has been keeping you in touch with the evolution of our paper proposing that HMG should assume greater responsibility than hitherto for the cost of expatriate pensions. Unfortunately he is away sick at the moment and so I am sending you with this letter some copies of the draft paper.
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It had been our intention to let you see this paper in draft at the same time as we submitted it to our Minister but before we sent copies to the Treasury. However, for reasons connected with the movements of my Minister in the New Year we have had to try to speed up the timetable and so I have also today sent a copy of the paper in its present form to Cecil Hodges in the Treasury.
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We realise that the paper does not in some respects go quite as far as some departments of the FCO would wish. But we assume that differences of view of this nature can be aired at meetings to discuss the paper. The point of referring the paper to you before sending it to the Treasury would have been the rather more limited one of ensuring that we had not taken the name of the FCO in vain in the various references we have made to it in our paper. If we have erred in this respect perhaps you will be kind enough to let Cecil Hodges know.
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I think that' our Minister has it in mind to discuss the whole matter informally with Ministers from the FCO and Treasury very early in the New Year. I expect that our Private Office will be in touch with yours about this in the near future.
5. There is one small point. are repetitions of each other. version.
Paragraphs 14 and 52 of the paper We will rectify this in any later
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Hows sincerely,
Leonard Martin
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LC J Martin
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