The Attorney General and Minister for Legal Affairs, the Honourable Karl Hudson-Phillips tendered his resignation to the Prime Minister, Dr. the Rt. Honourable Eric Williams on Monday, September 14, 1970.
Following is the reply by the Prime Minister to Mr. Hudson-Phillips
“My Dear Attorney General,
This will formally acknowledge your letter of September 14, 1970, and will place on record what I told you at the Special Cabinet
Meeting on Sunday – that, whilst I fully appreciate, and in fact admire, the honourable sentiments which motivated you, in accordance
with the highest Parliamentary traditions, to place your resignation at my disposal, I unambiguously refuse to accept it.