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Thank you for your letter of 10 June and for the
enclosed letters from Mr Teale.
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I was interested in your idea that we should hold
special referenda in each of our Dependent Territories.
But we should still have a continuing obligation under
the Charter to send the UN regular reports on our
territories and I think it would be difficult to argue
that it would be illegitimate for the UN to debate
them any more. The UN's discussions are not usually
quite as bad as you imply. We do not always manage to
keep them on the rails, but we think it is in the
interests of the territories that we should continue
to try, and we certainly do not have the least
embarrassment in defending our policies.
With regard to Mr Teale's points, we shall
certainly consider the petition when it is received
here. As for the absence of the RMS 'St Helena', I
understand that the St Helena Shipping Company has chartered a small vessel, the 'Aragonite, which has
already arrived at the islands on her first voyage and
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