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- ↑ Bough, James A. (1949). "The Caribbean Commission". International Organization. 3 (4): 643–655. doi:10.1017/S0020818300014922. ISSN 1531-5088.
- ↑ Herbert Corkran, Patterns of International Cooperation in the Caribbean, 1942-1969 (Dallas, 1979)
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