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PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL
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PC Du Esq
2772
West Indian & Atlantic
Department
F JO
BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION
FURNESS HOUSE
90 INDEPENDENCE SQUARE
P.O.BOX 778, PORT OF SPAIN
TRINIDAD
20 February, 1970
Dear Paluck,
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Many thanks for your letter of 9 February. fun seeing you here and I am delighted that you were able to make this little excursion beyond the borders of your parish. It was good of you, despite the mass of homework you brought with you, to join in some contacts with the Trinidadians, which was certainly helpful from our point view. Of course I will be in touch when I get back on leave.
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2. As you would expect I am eagerly sejni of commenting on the draft despatch about the Jack, phr of decolonisation. I certainly think this is timal. Recognising the practical limitations on what is w let along publishable, at this stage, I have only lo comments. One is that I think you might be more about the reasons for decolonisation policy: want to make our remaining colonies independent, a can do their own thing for themselven, not becau dependency is a nuisance to us. "We shall not rin the way" is a bit tepid. Such a presentational eli emphasis (which I should have thought would append Ministers) could be achieved by redrafting pars moving paragraph 5 up to follow item The depot. then tọ . on to discuss what happens il independi impracticable, or unwanted by the people. This. where practical limitations bite. Assuming that at this stage go much further down the line, m is that the third sentence of paragraph 4 prompti. not answer, the question "Why?". I, as I susp cannot at this stage answer the question it might to omit the sentence and rearrange the rest of a little.
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This brings me naturally to the really inh question which has so long perplexed us: what one to do with the colonies which cannot have, or do gol independence? If we are not merely wedded to the pel
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