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35. Mr. Brockway

asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what reply he has given in the official discussions with Dr. Eric Williams, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, to the proposal that the Governments of Jamaica and of Trinidad and Tobago should be requested to use their good offices to assist in bringing about an agreed solution of the constitutional difficulties in British Guiana.

39. Mr. Chapman

asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations if he will make a statement on his discussions in London last week with the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago; whether the discussions included the suggestion that Trinidad and Jamaica should use their good offices to obtain an agreed solution of the constitutional deadlock in British Guiana; and what view he expressed to Dr. Williams on this point.

Mr. Sandys

My conversations with the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago were confidential. But I can say that no proposal such as is mentioned in these Questions has been put to the British Government by the Governments of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, since the Constitutional Conference last October.