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which we should of course seek to present us positively as':

possible to the Gibraltarians, stressing its purely

administrative nature and emphasising the advantages

to them of Gibraltar'a external and internal interests, being,

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less compartmentalised administratively than hitherto and

treated more as the whole that they comprise

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RECOMMENDATION

I recommend that the merger should go, ahend and take place at a convenient date in the early spring, with the

proviso that, once Sir Joshua Hassan has been informed,

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Ministers should be consulted again if his reaction is very

adverse I submit a draft telegram to theGovernor

GGD concur