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Mr Keith Griffin, Magdalen College, Oxford
Mr Selwyn will also consider who might be invited from IDS itself, or from the University of Sussex, in addition to himself. Unfortunately, neither of the most likely candidates (Professor Charles Cooper and Professor Bernard Schaffer) will be in England at the time, nor will Mr Ward.
8. None of the IDS representatives knew anything about the following names which have been previously suggested as possible participants:
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Sir Cyril Phillips, School of Oriental and African Studies,
London University
Dr Carol Twitchett, Development Aid, University of Surrey
Professor Otto Pick, International Relations, University
of Surrey
Mr Adrian Graves, St Antony's College, Oxford
Mr A H M Kirk-Greene, St Antony's College, Oxford
Mr C W Newbury, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford
Professor Ingham, University of Bristol
We discussed also the question of non academic participants. On the official side, I confirmed that we expected representation to come mainly from the FCO and ODM. Mr Ward suggested we might add to the list the name of Mr Philip Marr of the Bank of England who served for three years in Bermuda as a Financial Adviser to the Government. I said that we were hoping to include some recently retired Governors, such as Mr John Smith, and Mr Walter Wallace. Mr Selwyn suggested we might also include Miss Eleanor Emery. I said that we hoped to be able to include some parliamentarians: from the House of Lords, the names of Lord Shackleton, Lord Kennet, and Lord Boston of Faversham had been suggested. From the House of Commons, we should probably approach people who had shown their interest in Dependent Territories by their membership of the appropriate parliamentary groups.
10. Among journalists with an interest in Dependent Territories, Mr Selwyn could only think of two BBC staff members, Dr Peter France and Mrs June Knox-Mawer, both of whom have written books and articles about the Pacific.
11. The IDS representatives could not suggest any names of people from the Dependent Territories who might be available at the appropriate time. There were no current Fellows of the Institute from the Dependent Territories. However, it often happened that people from overseas came to the Institute at relatively short notice, for limited stays, and it is possible that somebody suitable would be around in September. I confirmed that we should probably
have enough flexibility in our arrangements to be able to issue an invitation to any such person who showed up, even to the last few days before the seminar actually took place.
Chairman
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