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CONCLUDING REMARKS.
Thus it can be claimed with considerable justification that HMG have in the
past provided and in the present are providing very substantial aid in a variety of forms for the purpose of improving living standards and economic and social
Within the overall policy, HMG conditions in all the dependent territories. seeks to identify and respond to the particular needs of individual territories.
The territories which remain are all at different stages of development. Each has special problems. Each requires and is receiving, individual attention. The tried and proven method of developing democratic institutions and encouraging each territory to run its own affairs to the maximum practical extent is still the one most likely to meet the wishes and cater for the needs of the dependent territories. Such a policy is also the one most likely to foster and encourage the emergence of spontaneous and realistic local opinion in the territories which will then indicate the most appropriate ultimate goal for each one. are already indications that continued dependent status could turn out to be the right solution for and accordance with the wishes of some of the very small
territories.
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