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Important Considerations

8. There may be many internal and external questions which would have to be resolved before independence: internal security; racial and other internal conflicts; defence, for which the USA, Australia and New Zealand could perhaps create an 'umbrella'; diplomatic support in international disputes over fisheries, sea-bed resources etc. We would not wish to leave intractable problems behind after so many years of colonial responsibility.

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