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influences hostile to us. But in general we are sure that it is in our own interests to encourage the territories to seek independence, or (in a few cases) association with a third power, as soon as international constraints and local circumstances allow.
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But there is another side to this also: the interests and wishes of the inhabitants themselves, to whom we are under strong moral obligations, may dictate that we should not persuade them into independence before laying the foundations of a viable social, political and economic infrastructure which they have some hope of sustaining after independence.
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The political choice may therefore in some cases lie between our own interests in relinquishing responsibility as soon as possible, and those of the inhabitants in continued dependence. In any case the circumstances of each of the territories differ widely: we therefore accept the recommendation in the paper that separate studies should be put in hand, territory by territory, to define the political objectives which are appropriate to each.
Economic Aid Policy
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6. With the premise that our economic aid policy must be consistent with the political objectives for each territory as defined, the paper identifies two basic options: first essentially our present policy to seek where possible by means of our aid policies to establish an economic and social infrastructure which a territory can ultimately, though not necessarily immediately sustain from its own resources: that is, our aid policy should have as its objective the achievement of economic independence at tolerable standards of living. The second alternative. option is to aim, at least in certain territories, at a somewhat higher standard, even if it is not likely to be self-sustaining, accepting the implication that this may involve us in indefinitely continued financial assistance, including perhaps even indefinite budgetary aid.
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and resources as well as the Here again the needs political circumstances of individual territories differ widely. We therefore endorse the recommendation in the paper that individual studies should be set in hand in
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