[Scotland's Oil [continued]][2nd February 1976]

[Redbook2:78F-I][19760202.0000a][Scotland's Oil [continued]][2nd February 1976]

19760202c.

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Analogy helps. The United Kingdom proper consisted of the territory known as Great Britain and Ireland. The inhabitants of a large part of Ireland were removed from the power of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom, taking with them effective control over a large part of the territory of the United Kingdom, which they named 'Eire'. It was generally (and wrongly) felt within Great Britain that 'Eire' took with it little of value to the remainder of the United Kingdom, except prestige. But 'Eire' did, it appears, take the full existing and future rights of a sovereign state to offshore areas.

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