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FM ANGUILLA 2022202 SEP
SKBY 2110007
VLASSIFIED
TO IMMEDIATE FCO TEL NO 76 OF 20.9.79
AND SAVING TO BARBADOS DEVDIV
FOR WIAD
YOUR TEL: 62. IDS SEMINAR
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1. WORKING PAPER RECEIVED 18 SEPTEMBER
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2. PARA 3.4 SLIGHTLY MISLEADING. IN 1965 ANGUILLA WOULD NOT HAVE GEEN CONSIDERED SEPARATELY BUT TOGETHER WITH ST KITTS-NEVIS,
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3. ON PARA 3 GENERALLY, INDEPENDENCE FOR, SAY, JAMAICA, TRINIDAD AND BARBADOS WOULD HAVE BEEN HARD TO IMAGINE BEFORE 1960. SINCE THEN THE THRESHOLD HAS CONSTANTLY BEEN LOWERED. EVEN ANGUILLA THEORET- ICALLY WOULD NOW CREEP IN. HOWEVER TIME SCALE ENVISAGED IN 3.1 SEEMS AMBITIOUS IN PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES.
4. BUT IN CONSIDERING INDEPENDENCE FOR THESE FEW RESIDUAL DEPEND- ENCIES WITH TINY POPULATIONS CAN WE IGNORE SUCH QUESTIONS AS: WHAT SORT OF INDEPENDENCE CAN SUCH SMALL TERRITORIES HAVE? HOW CAN THEY DEFEND THEMSELVES? CAN THEY REALLY SURVIVE ECONOMICALLY? CAN THEY HOPE TO MAINTAIN OR EVEN IMPROVE THEIR LIVING STANDARDS ESPECIALLY IN AN INFLATIONARY AGE? PARA 6. ON AID, TOUCHES UPON SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS BUT IT WOULD APPEAR THERE ARE GAPS WHICH THE SEMINAR MIGHT USEFULLY DISCUSS.
5. ON PARA 3.2 (AND WITHOUT SUGGESTION ANY DEPARTURE FROM THE GOAL OF INDEPENDENCE) WOULD WE STILL BE FAIR GAME FOR THE COMMITTEE OF 24 ETC IF PROVISION FOR INDEPENDENCE WAS WRITTEN INTO EXISTING DEPENDENCY CONSTITUTIONS?
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because they will still be dependent.
6. AID. DOES LAST SENTENCE OF 6.1 STAND UP TO CLOSE EXAMINATION?
- ANSWER SEEMS TO HINCE ON HOW WORD QUOTE REASONABLE UNQUOTE IN PRECEDING SENTENCE IS DEFINED; HOW THE PRESENT AID POLICY IN PRACTICE MESHES WITH OUR DECLARED DECOLONISATION POLICY WARRANTS, HI MY VIEW, A REALLY SEARCHING LOOK.
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