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2. The Police Directive is perhaps as good an example to take as any. Here the first paragraph very briefly gives the pre-war "set-up"; and the second specifies the other duties which will, on first re-occupation, come within the scope of the Commissioner of Police. The remainder suggests
a few reforms on the old system.
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Now if, as you say, these Directives are to look no farther forward than "the military period under a non-British Commander" it would hardly be proper (taking the same Police example, to talk of language study, conditions of service, infiltration of non-Europeans etc.
The longer view seems to me to accord with Chapter 2 of the printed Military Manual, C.A., which, even though it covers liberated Allied territories rather than re-conquered British possessions, we tend to treat as our Bible
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"Stability tempered by flexibility While operations are actually in progress emergency measures alone...
but a regular organization as soon as possible. Control through existing or re-established civil authorities."
5. The emergency measures are specified under fourteen heads, ranging from care and control of refugees to the prevention of looting and the clearance of debris, in paragraph 17 of Chapter 4 of the same. But as soon as that stage is passed there will surely be the need for some sort of legislative assembly (if only to legalise the collection of taxes see Chapter 23 paragraph 9 of the said Manual). And if, under the terms of the Charter, every Police Constable is to derive his authority from the Crown I cannot altogether see the absurdity of expanding this to the Letters Patent and their Councils even with a non-British Commander in charge. But it is all very difficult.
6. Your proposed apportionment of individual Directives accords almost exactly with what I had already in mind. May I leave this over until the major problems raised above are settled?
24th March, 1944