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| | The Trinidad Guardian -Online Edition Ver 2.0 |
 | | Obtaining Chaguaramas as the capital site of the proposed West Indian Federal State had an inauspicious beginning, when the 1956 London conference ended with a fig leaf of a compromise which did not conceal Americas determination, supported by the UK, to maintain its hold on Chaguaramas as a military base. |
 | | Acutely conscious of the fact that his new governments position on Chaguaramas was being exploited by his political enemies at home and abroad as being anti-American, Dr Williams sought to neutralise their thrust by insisting he was not anti-anyone, but amenable to compromise, once the fundamental principle of TandT and West Indian sovereignty was recognised. |
 | | Chaguaramas was symbolic of an emerging West Indian and, particularly, TandT nationalism, and had become something of a touchstone for TandTs leader. |
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