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5. Wider dissemination of the memorandum could be accelerated if Ministers were to decide that it should be given to the House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, which will almost certainly be considering the future of our Dependent Territories during the course of this year. Since the Committee's activities are normally public, this would amount to publication in the United Kingdom. We shall naturally keep you informed about this.
6.
As you foresaw in paragraph 2 of your letter (A/2/1 029: A/2/10) of 3 January to Patrick Duff, it has taken us even longer than we expected (in fact, thanks partly to the Election, over a year) to produce this mouse. I have only just seen your letter on my return from leave. Its very interesting suggestions are still being digested by a WIAD in (more even than usual!) staff change turmoil. But I hope that you will be able to agree that the publication and circulation of this anodyne memorandum (which I think will need little, if any, "sanitising") need not be delayed by the Cat first glance) eminently sensible constitu- tional proposals you have made for the Cayman Islands; and that your position, and ours, is adequately safeguarded by its terms (notably paragraphs 1,2 and 7).
7. I am sending a similar letter (less paragraph 6) to all other Officers Administering Governments.
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Yours
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R J Stratton
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