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On

our present posture of non-participation.

the other hand, if our main objective is to gain

as much credit as possible within the Committee

and the UN in general from adopting a co-operative

attitude towards the Committee, we should be

prepared to incur some rough passages in the

Committee in order to put ourselves in a better

general position. Given the Committee's overriding

interest in Southern African problems, agreement

to include Rhodesia among the dependent territories

we are prepared to discuss would gain us considerably

more credit than an agreement to participate

only over the smaller territories.

19. Mr Richard concludes that the right,course

of action is to agree to participate in Committee

discussion on Rhodesia, but to limit our inter-

ventions as much as possible and make clear the

practical limitations to our ability both to

supply information and to implement policy.

recommendations. This conclusion seems right.

I recommend that we should agree.

Visiting Missions (Paragraph 7(a) of Letter)

20. Mr Richard recommends that we should be

forthcoming about visiting missions from the

Committee of 24 to our smaller dependent terri-

tories.

21. The attitude of previous governments to

Committee of 24 visiting missions is described

in the annex (paragraph). The previous Labour

Government adopted a cautious approach. In

general, they did not favour visiting missions

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