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12.
(a) Aden.
Mr. Ingrams stressed the differences between the
Colony of Aden and Gibraltar, In Aden there were many
clashes of communities and interests and the fortress
element was much less pervasive. Our role was chiefly to
keep order. Aden could not be fitted into the normal
Colonial mould and he doubted whether the office of
Governor was appropriate. He thought that consideration
should be given to providing for the administration of the
Colony by a Municipal Council on the model of a City State
and that the Imperial and defence aspects of the
territory should be in the care of a British High
Commissioner It was suggested that, since there must be
a legislating body, the idea which the Committee had been
considering in connection with Gibraltar might be appropriate
for Aden, namely that a Committee of the existing
Legislative Council with municipal powers, might be formed
from the unofficial members with, probably, representativou
of the Township Authorities co-opted to it.
13.
As regards the Protectorates, Mr. Ingrams thought
that the present responsibilities of the Governor were
quite unreal and that his authority was simply not recognised
in them in the way in which it is recognised in the normal
pattern of Protectorates. He referred to the lines of
development suggested in paragraph 57 of S.T.C. (49)17 and
emphasised that he thought that a High Commissioner
rather than a Governor, should be responsible for the
foreign and imperial relations of the Protectorates, but
that, as regards their internal affairs, the British
Advisers should be responsible to the separate States or
federations and states and not to the High Commissioner.
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