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CONFIDENTIAL
Mr Hamylton Jones
PROGRAMME ANALYSIS AND REVIEW
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FCO PAR 1973: FUTURE OF THE DEPENDENT TERRITORIEST
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Having lived with the PAR Review since joining the Dependent Territories Division last February, it has had for me the kind of fascination of eternity. At times I wondered if we could ever reduce it to the form in which. it has finally appeared. I had been hoping that if it were approved by Ministers there would be time for you to remain with us to help the Division in implementing what- ever Ministers may finally decide. So I am very sorry indeed to learn from your minute of today's date that your posting has been finally confirmed and that you will be moving from Gibraltar & General Department at the end of
next week.
2. Sir Duncan Watson has already sent you his accolade i and you yourself in your minute of 18 December have, like any modest author, acknowledged (as do I) the help that you have had from your colleagues. But it would be very remiss of me, who, as Chairman of the PAR Steering Committee have probably seen more than others of your work, if I did not add my own personal thanks to you for the splendid way in which you have finished what at the outset seemed a
I do not know what very unlikely and unrewarding task. Ministers will think of the final outcome but it certainly impresses me as a thoughtful and penetrating analysis. If it is approved by Ministers, and implemented in the way we
/hope,.
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