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which could be tacked on as necessary.

provisions in the White Paper, h The coverage and purpose

would

is self-evidence. I just mentioned that we have included the

penultimate point because we feel that this will be the

focal point of the first round of criticism of the White Paper proposals, and that It might be used to ridicule them

because of the proliferation of categories.

We think there

·

is much to be said for anticipating this criticism by a

Government's we suspect that the cake will

first strike; otherwise we suspect that the

hearing.

not get

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