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In para 9 of the paper I am not quite clear how it is proposed to have a series of First Secretaries with experience as a Chief Secretary when Annex A indicates that there will only be three expatriate Chief Secretaries (and one Deputy Governor) in post in 1980.
I agree that the forecasts in Annexes A and B are about right in so far as the BVI is concerned.
3. As regards the matters raised in para 3 of your letter, I would expect Governor BVI to have a Monson doctrine confi- dant for a few years yet. There will be an expatriate FS until 1980 and possibly an expatriate Attorney-General until say 1982.
The expatriate AG may well be a West Indian but if he is the right man that is no bar to him fulfilling a role in the Monson doctrine. As to the handling of papers, e g, in the Personal series, when the Governor is on leave, I have never been able to accept that there is any alterna- tive but that the Acting Governor, whoever he may be (but provided he is not a politician) should have access to all but the most sensitive ones. On the question of a feeling of isolation, I think that we just have to accept that basically a Governor's job is a lonely one, however many Monson mates he may have or however big the community. Annual vacation leaves would of course be a great help in this respect.
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