And his leadership is going to help give them the ability to overcome this difficulty, summon their greatness, and put them in a position that they're stronger at the end as we come out of this recession than they were before they went in.

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It might have been far easier to have overcome this difficulty if the original proposals for a Commonwealth civil service had been imaginatively carried out if the Commonwealth countries had been prepared to send more technicians and administrators of their own to serve the colonies in their transitional stages.

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