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YOUR TELEGRAMS NOS 530 AND 543: DEATH SENTENCES
1.
We think the first paragraph of the line you. propose to take for defensive purposes in answer to any Press enquiries could be strengthened and expanded as follows:-
"Trinidad and Tobago is an independent sovereign state within the Commonwealth and the Government of
the United Kingdom have no responsibility for its
internal or external affairs.
Under the constitution of Trinidad and Tobago,
the Governor-General has power to exercise the prerogative of mercy in the name of and on behalf
of Her Majesty as Queen of Trinidad and Tobago. In
the exercise of this, power the Governor-General acts
Ministers on the advice ofindet
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