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In his despatch HX2/1 dated 13 June 1975

Mr Callaghan addressed all Governors about

the policy of the British Government towards

the future of the dependent territories

whose status he described as "an anachronism".

Since then the pace of decolonisation, not on

in the Pacific and the-Caribbean, has been

maintained. The Seychelles, Solomon Islands

and Tuvalu have become independent and

Dominica and St Lucia have become futty

independent by termination of the p

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The Gilbert Islands is due to follow on

12 July and St Vincent on

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