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The Ambassador in France ( Caffery ) to the Secretary of State

sibly also the French, was felt to be ( c ): “British trusteeship for all of Libya, with two individual trusteeships for Tripolitania and Cyrenaica.” It was felt that the liberal policies followed by Great Britain in India, Burma, Ceylon and even in Nigeria, the Gold Coast and elsewhere in Black Africa, would serve to temper Nationalist disappointment throughout French North Africa that a European trusteeship had been decided. It was believed that this solution would not arouse resentment in French North Africa to the extent of civil disturbance. It would provide indirect but very worth while …