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Evacuation for all those who could make some claim

to it might mean at least million people.

Sir Arthur Snelling thought it should be possible

to give some indication of numbers and priorities

by category without actually preparing a plan.

Even this would be helpful to Whitehall.

Dormant Commission

12.

The Governor referred to the dormant

commission drawn up some time ago under which he

had to hand over to the Commander British Forces

and leave the Colony himself if it seemed likely

that there would be a prolonged period of armed

hostilities. He said that in those circumstances

he would have no intention of leaving the Colony.

He had written to the Commonwealth Office about

this.

Defence Contribution

13.

It was explained that there should be

no difficulty over the legislature voting the

necessary funds for the increased defence

contribution. The proposal had been put forward

by the Unofficials themselves and the additional

expenditure had been accommodated in the estimates

without cuts elsewhere and without the imposition

of new taxes.

The Budget

14.

The Financial Secretary said that the

budget envisaged further expansion of social

services without significant increases in taxation.

E.E.C.

15.

The Secretary of State outlined the state

of play on Britain and the E.E.C. The Financial

/Secretary

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