CAB148-30-Defence and Oversea Policy Committee Meetings Relating to 1967 Disturbances-1967 — Page 133

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(THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT )

OPD (67) 16th Meeting

CABINET

COPY NO.

80

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

MINUTES of a Meeting held at

10 Downing Street, S.W.1., on

WEDNESDAY, 19th APRIL 1967, at 9.45 a.n.

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. Denis Healey, MP,

Secretary of State for Defence

The Rt. Hon. Herbert Bowden, MP,

Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs

The Rt. Hon. Roy Jenkins, MP,

Secretary of State for the Home Department

THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT :

The Rt. Hon. Lord Gardiner,

Lord Chancellor

The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Longford,

Lord Privy Seal

The Rt. Hon. George Wigg, MP,

Paymaster-General

The Rt. Hon. Frederick Mulley, MP,

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

The Rt. Hon. Douglas Jay, MP,

President of the Board of Trade

The Rt. Hon. Arthur Bottomley, MP, Minister of Overseas Development

The Rt. Hon. John Diamond, MP,

Chief Secretary, Treasury

The Rt. Hon. Sir Elwyn Jones, QC, MP

Attorney-General

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Sir Saville Garner,

Commonwealth Office

SECRETARIAT:

Sir Burke Trend

Mr. P. Rogers

Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson

SUBJECT:

RHODESIA

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