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this is because the Anguillans have presented us with a fait accompli and we can only do our best to rationalise it. To some extent perhaps the same is true for the view which seems now to have become orthodox that we must take Anguilla over as a British dependency because we have treated it as such in practice for the past 10 years.

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This does not require your attention before you return from leave.

13 October 1977

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R N Posnett

Dependent Territories Adviser

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