- The membership of the Committee will be as follows:-

4.

370

Page 487

Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (In the Chair) Minister of Defence

Secretary of State for the Colonies

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

(Mr. Ernest Davies).

This Ministerial Committee will be assisted by an Overseas Information Services (Official) Committee under the Chairmanship of Mr. C.F.A. Warner (Foreign Office) and comprising officials of the Colonial Office, Commonwealth Relations Office and Central Office of Information. The Treasury will nominate an official to attend meetings at which financial questions are to be discussed, and representatives of other Departments and of the B.B.C. will be invited to attend as required.

The terms of reference of the Overseas Information Services (Official) Committee will be:-

"To keep under review Government publicity to countries overseas

and the working of Government information services overseas; and to undertake such other tasks as may be assigned to it by the Overseas Information Services Committee."

Cabinet Office, S.W.1,

18TH MAY, 1951.

Page 487

-2-

(Signed) NORMAN BROOK

Page 487

R.

371

Share This Page