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the instrumentality of a
Retrenchment Committee.
that
Whatever the grounds of
opinion that for the propounding of your suggestions it cannot be essential
that
Your
vote on the Committee
You
increased if you
survive
majority. This is by the way:
the material point is
not how
Conclusion,
may
be, it is clear
you arrived at it, but that
Your
aid
arrive
at it.
7.
Once
it is shown that
a majority
Even if a minority of
the Governor fails to see
why that should prevent you
from making the most useful
recommendations
might be in
that
your power to
balance of
minority
making
The fact of
you being in
could not
from the reasonableness
detract
recommendation which you
might make, nor consequently from this
to such
consideration to be given
as
would thereby
enable;
any way
increased
anxiety to remove
even
the
semblance of a justification.
For your
reluctance to serve
on the Committee, the Governor was disposed to give effect to your wishes. Needless to say,
he did not consider them reasonable, but he thought it just possible to accept
them.
But here
he was
met
by
a
double difficulty: Mr. Belilios,
who was
invited to join the
Committee,
declined, and the Military Secretary,
to whom it was
submitted, declined,