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for selected overseas Posts baased on the material

supplied by O.D.M.

5. A White Paper would be published in April, 1970 which

O.D.M. would draft. It would be a short descriptive

paper, largely factual, stating what had been accom-

plished under the C.D. & W. Acts, e.g. how many

University places had been provided, how many air-

ports built, etc. It should cover the whole C.D. & W.

period right up to March, 1970.

6. A short illustrated booklet would be published by the

C.0.I. in April, 1970. This would be a popular version of the White Paper and would be drafted by the C.0.I., using their most recent pamphlet on C.D. & W. as a

guide. It should have an introduction by a well-known person, who had had a long and close association with Colonial development, e.g., Sir Hilton Poynton. F.C.0. would commission C.0.1. as soon as possible to put

the booklet in hand.

7. A historical study of Colonial development from say 1945 to 1970 would be produced in the series of of- ficial histories of peacetime events under arrange-

ments made by the Cabinet Office. It should cover

not only C.D. & W. projects, but the achievements financed by C.D.C. borrowing by Colonial Governments on the London market, and other aspects of Colonial development. It was suggested that Mr. D.J. Morgan, an historian and economist, who had produced a history of C.D. & W. in the West Indies in about 1955, would

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