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which we should of course seek to present us positively as':
possible to the Gibraltarians, stressing its purely
administrative nature and emphasising the advantages
to them of Gibraltar'a external and internal interests, being,
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less compartmentalised administratively than hitherto and
treated more as the whole that they comprise
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RECOMMENDATION
I recommend that the merger should go, ahend and take place at a convenient date in the early spring, with the
proviso that, once Sir Joshua Hassan has been informed,
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Ministers should be consulted again if his reaction is very
adverse I submit a draft telegram to theGovernor
GGD concur