Mr. O'Brien,
Reference...
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Mr. Stewart
R+R
Financial Policy & Aid Dept.
Pension Policy
In the very short time available for comment on a matter of considerable complication, you will not expect me to make more than preliminary
comments on the ODM's papers, insofar as they
affect relations with the countries for which I am responsible.
2. My first comment is that ODI do not appear to take sufficient account of the fact that we are, in these matters, to a considerable extent prisoners of the Kenyan and Ugandan Governments. Whatever pensions obligations they care to drop we shall have to pick up, and this applies not only to white-faced expatriates but also to brown-faced U.K. citizens.
3.
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Secondly, I do not think that the FCO ought to go along with a policy of demarcation which will be clearly seen to be racially based,
undes a non-discriminatory already sufficiently under fire for concealing/a racial approach to immigration matters under a non- disøriminatory aleek aimed particularly at the East African Asians; ad I do not think we could accept that if the Kenyan authorities stopped paying them their pensions we should allow them to
rot.
4.
Finally, I think that the acceptance of responsibility for expatriate "crown service" pensions will make it harder to maintain the
cloak
"crown service principle" in respect of expatriates
offer drawing pensions from colonial sources (e.g. local governments). If the Nairobi City Council renege on, e their pensions obligations to their former city engineer, now retired and living in Cheltenham,
a, eg.
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I think HMG will be morally bound to pick up the
bill.
It would surely be better to make a clean
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