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What does one do about dependencies whose

local governments policies create local

disturbances and who then expect us to bail

them out.

The problems of the microstate.

What do we do about governments which are

likely to be continually dependent on us.

The role of Aid Policy.

I realise that the remarks have been descriptions of the

problems rather than prescriptions. Prescriptions are not

easy. If they were they would not have hung around a succession of ministers and officials crossing from Colonial

to Commonwealth Office to the Foreign and Commonwealth

Office. As I deal with most of these problems feel like

the Minister for insoluble problems (almost insoluble) -

reconciling the irreconciliable. If I was prone to depression,

I should have been depressed over the last 21 years -

officials and former ministers alike. "I remember the talks

with the Guatemalans in 1963, or was it 1957 ...

One of the reasons why these problems have remained is that

/they are