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CHIEFS OF STAFF COMMITTEE
MINUTES of a Staff Conference held in the Prime Minister's Map Room, S.W.1., on WEDNESDAY, 1st JUNE, 1949, at 11.30 hours.
PRESENT:
The Rt. Hon. A.V. Alexander, M.P.,
Minister of Defence.
(In the Chair)
Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Lord Tedder,
Chief of the Air Staff.
Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fraser Field Marshal Sir William Slim,
of North Cape.
Chief of the Imperial
First Sea Lord and Chief of
Naval Staff.
Air Marshal Sir William Elliot,
General Staff.
Chief Staff Officer to the Minister of Defence.
THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT :
Mr. Malcolm MacDonald,
Commissioner-Gencrɛl
in South East Asia.
Mr. J.J. Paskin,
Colonial Office.
General Bir Neil Hitahio
000-in-0,FARELF.
Mr. F..... Scarlett,
Foreign Office.
SECRETARIAT :
Brigadier C.R. Price. Captain W. Evershed, R.N. Lt.Col. N.F. Heneage.
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