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take growing pressure for a Parliamentary enquiry seriously, an observation based on conversations with Mr Rowlands and again with Lord Goronwy-Roberts. My purpose was purely to be helpful: to give the Governor political advice from here as to how his proposals for increasing LegCo might be judged when they were submitted to the Secretary of State for approval. On reflection, the telegram was somewhat over-compressed; but, of course, it was written in the knowledge that the Governor had recently been in London and had been exposed, through his meetings with the TUC, the NEC, the PLP, Ministers and officials to the political atmosphere here. I assumed that it would be seen as plain advice on matters related to his original enquiry, against the background of our objections to a Parliamentary enquiry or indeed public enquiry of any kind which are, or should be, well known to him.
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Sir M MacLehose's letter of 24 February typifies a problem to which I have drawn attention on several occasions in the past. This is that I, and more senior members of the Office, have great difficulty in establishing a proper rapport with him and that this has undesirable effects in managing a relationship which is crucial for the maintenance of our relationship with the Colony. We naturally take every opportunity to report his advice on local considerations. to Ministers and others; and the last thing we would want is for him to lose his ability to control a difficult relationship with senior officials and his Unofficials (not given adequate attention in his Depatch). But our attempts to interpret Ministers' views to him, when they are unwelcome, are often regarded as a sign of weakness on the part of officials, or ignorance of local conditions, or both. There is also some tendency to under-estimate the importance of political considerations here, as the interpretation of Mr McNally's views in paragraph 7 of his letter indicates. Mr McNally's views are as stated in paragraph 5 of my letter of 5 March about the pressure for a Parliamentary enquiry; and these were reflected in my telegram no. 117.
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I had the Governor's attitudes over the past year very much in mind when, at the PUS's meeting.on 13 February, I mentioned that the most difficult aspect of social and institutional development in
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