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Thirdly, and only worth mentioning as a further straw in the wind, there was the Financial Secretary's evident puzzlement that the formal call on the Governor which had been arranged for me so long over-ran the time allocated: what common ground could there be between the Governor and a visiting FCO economist?
3. I should just add, in case anyone might be tempted to read between my lines, that my view remains that the Financial Secretary near-indispensible.
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