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| | My Eye and Betty Martin -- Monday, Jul. 26, 1943 -- Page 1 -- TIME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Oliver Stanley's words were a quieter echo of Churchill's growl last Armistice Day: "I did not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Changes in the Empire, it was clear, would have to be gradual. |
 | | Stanley announced that international commissions, on the model of the Caribbean Commission, would be established, comprising states with major strategic or economic interests in the region, "to provide effective and permanent machinery for consultation and collaboration [and] to promote the well-being of the colonial territories. |
 | | The twin pillars of a sound colonial policy, Colonel Stanley observed weightily, are "educational advance and economic development." To strengthen the first pillar, he proposed to set up 30 annual two-year scholarships for promising colonials. |
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