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Your Ref: DGO/1/6 CONFIDENTIAL AND PERSONAL

Hirby

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

18 April 1978

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The Hon Sir Peter Ramsbotham, GCMG, GCVO BERMUDA

Newa's pa

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THE CREECH-JONES DOCTRINE

Dear Peter,

Thank you for your letter of 27 March which crossed with Michael Palliser's letter of 4 April on the same subject.

1.

(211) Hope this will have answered the main points you raise.

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HKC 380/2

2. In your manuscript PS you again suggested that the Secretary of State would be better protected if the constitution were to be amended to remove the Governor's discretion. As we see it, however, the objections to removing the Governor's discretion which I set out in my letter of 3 March remain unaltered by the latest ministerial decision.

Yours

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