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THE PRIME MINISTER, summing up the discussion, said that in his consultations with the Governments of Singapore and Malaysia the Defence Secretary should follow the same line as that which the Foreign Secretary had taken in Washington, taking them into our confidence in the same way about
He our plans and the reasons of economy and policy which underlay then. had himself sent a message to the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Holt, recognising the concern of Australia that we should not abandon our interest in the Far East and stating our intention to maintain this interest and support, though without relying by the mid-1970s on large oversea establish-
ments on the ground.
The Committee
Invited the Defence Secretary to be guided by the Prime Minister's
summing up of their discussion in his consultations with the Governments of Singapore and Malaysia.
Cabinet Office, S.W.1.
21st April 1967
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