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to meet the foreign exchange costs of our forces in Germany, and the nature and timing of our approach to WEU and NATO. In the forthcoming
discussions with the United States and Federal German Governments we should
not indicate our willingness to accept a solution involving the withdrawal of two brigades which left a substantial part of our foreign exchange costs
uncovered, nor should we at this stage seek the agreement of the Americans
to giving notice to the troops and families in view of the damaging
repercussions this might have on any approach we night later make to WEU.
The Committee
(1)
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Agreed that the necessary expenditure should now be incurred on the rehabilitation of camps and the provision of family accommodation in the United Kingdon to accommodate two brigades and four RAF squadrons from Germany.
(2) Invited the Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of
Housing and Local Government (Mr. Mellish) to arrange for the Ministerial Comittee on the Provision of Accommodation for Service Families to consider and approve plans for the housing of the families of two brigades and four RAF squadrons from Germany.
(3)
Invited the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
(Mr. Thomson) in his forthcoming discussions with the United States and Federal German Governments to be guided
(4)
by the points made in discussion and in the Prime Minister's summing up.
Agreed to resume their discussion of the withdrawal of
forces from Germany, the giving of notice to the troops concerned and the timing and tactics of any approach to WEU in the light of the outcome of the tripartite talks.
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