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Separate copies to each.

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Mr. Bennett

Mr. Webster (Please show Mr.Fairclough with

Mr. Minnitt Mr. Carter

attached separate minute early on Monday morning)

Increased Aid for Dependent Territories.

I attach a copy of Mr. W.I.Combs' minute to me of 30 October. I shall hold a meeting of the Division on this subject at 11.15 a.m. on Tuesday, 4 November. will inform those concerned about the room. separate notes to Mr. Bennett, Mr. Fairclough and Mr. Minnitt.

Miss Vincent I am sending

2.

I should like the following to be present:

GSAD:

Mr. Herdman

PIOD:

Mr. Minnitt, Mr. Lee, Mr. F. Brown,

Mr. J. Moffatt, Mr. Marshall.

3.

WID:

Mr. Fairclough and any others he wishes to bring (please inform Miss Vincent.)

I ask each desk officer to bring with him a statement relating to the current level of aid of the territory (ies) with which he deals, together with a "bid" for increased aid having regard to the considerations in para. 4 below.

4. The object of this exercise is to translate the general idea that dependent territories have generally a greater need and greater entitlement to aid than those which are independent,

The into specific proposals with an order of priorities. priorities should not be conceived solely in terms of the competing claims of territories but more in those of competing

On this projects among the territories as a whole. conception the top priority might be given to a single project in, for example, BSIP; whereas in the same list all remaining projects in BSIP might come in at the tail. should also stress that the object is not to achieve a general opening of the "por barrel" but to determine what special good we could achieve for our remaining dependencies on the basis of getting a somewhat freer hand on the finance.

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Mr. Holland (with separate minute) Mr. O'Brien (with separate minute) Mr. W.I. Combs.

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(J.C.Morgan)

31 October, 1969.