CAB148-30-Defence and Oversea Policy Committee Meetings Relating to 1967 Disturbances-1967 — Page 137

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

OPD (67) 17th Meeting

CABINET

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

73

COPY NO.

MINUTES of a Meeting of the Cormittee held in the Prime Minister's Room, House of Commons, S.7.1., on FRIDAY, 21st APRIL 1967 at 2.00 p.m.

PRESENT:

The Rt. Hon. Harold Wilson, MP

Prime Minister

The Rt. Hon. George Brown, MP

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

The Rt. Hon. Herbert Bowden, MP

Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs

The Rt. Hon. James Callaghan, MP

Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Rt. Hon. Denis Healey, MP

Secretary of State for Defence

THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT:

The Rt. Hon. Lord Chalfont,

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

Mr. Albert E. Oram, MP

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Development

Mr. Harold Lever, MP

Joint Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State,

Department of Economic Affairs

Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull,

Chief of the Defence Staff

Admiral Sir Varyl Begg,

Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord

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Air Chief Marshal Sir John Grandy,

Chief of the Air Staff

Lieutenant-General Sir Desmond Fitzpatrick,

Vice-Chief of the General Staff

SECRETARIAT:

Sir Burke Trend

Mr. P. Rogers

Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson

Captain R.N. Heard

SUBJECT:

DEFENCE EXPENDITURE STUDIES

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