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The Committee
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Invited the Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs
to instruct our High Commissioner in Lusaka on the lines indicated by the Prine Minister.
Invited the Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs,
in consultation with other Ministers concerned, to arrange for an assessment to be made of the Chinese threat in Zambia.
Cabinet Office, S.W.1.,
1st March 1967
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OPD(67) 10th Meeting
CABINET
DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE
COPY NO. 67
MINUTES of a Meeting held in
10 Downing Street, S.W.1., on
TUESDAY, 7th MARCH 1967 at 10.15 a.m.
PRESENT:
The Rt. Hon. Harold Wilson, MP
Prime Minister
The Rt. Hon. Michael Stewart, MP First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
The Rt. Hon. Richard Crossman, MP Lord President of the Council
The Rt. Hon. James Callaghan, MP
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Rt. Hon. Denis Healey, MP
Secretary of State for Defence
The Rt. Hon. Roy Jenkins, MP Secretary of State for the Home Department
THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT:
The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Longford
Lord Privy Seal
The Rt. Hon. George Thomson, MP
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Mr. George Thomas, MP
Minister of State for
Commonwealth Affairs (Items 2 and 3)
Admiral Sir Varyl Begg,
Chief of Naval Staff and
First Sea Lord (Items 2 and 3)
The Rt. Hon. George Wigg, MP
Paymaster-General
Mrs. Judith Hart, MP
Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs (Item 1)
Mr. Albert E. Oram, MP
Parliamentary Secretary,
Ministry of Overseas Development
General Sir James Cassels,
Chief of the General Staff
(Items 2 and 3)
Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Elworthy,
Chief of the Air Staff
(Items 2 and 3)
SECRETARIAT :
Sir Burke Trend
Mr. P. Rogers
Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson
Mr. F.A.K. Harrison
Major-General J.H. Gibbon
CONTENTS:
Item No.
Subject
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OUTLOOK FOR THE DEPENDENT TERRITORIES
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EMERGENCY PLANNING IN AFRICA
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3.
GOVERNMENT EXPENSECREVERSEAS
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