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OPD(67) 19th Meeting

CABINET

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

72

COPY NO.

MINUTES of a Meeting held at

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

FRIDAY, 12th MAY 1967 at 10.30 a.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. James Callaghan, MP

Chancellor of the Exchequer (Items 1-3)

The Rt. Hon. Denis Healey, MP

Secretary of State for Defence

The Rt. Hon. Michael Stewart, MP First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs

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 (Items 2-4)

THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT:

The Rt. Hon. Lord Gardiner,

Lord Chancellor (Item 1)

The Rt. Hon. Richard Marsh, MP Minister of Power (Item 1)

The Rt. Hon. George Wigɛ, MP

Paymaster-General

Mr. John Stonehouse, MP

Minister of State, Ministry of Technology (Item 2)

Lord Walston,

Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Trade (Item 1)

The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Longford,

Lord Privy Seal

The Rt. Hon. Arthur Bottomley, MP

Minister of Overseas Development

Mr. Gerald Reynolds, MP

Minister of Defence for Administration (Item 4)

Mr. Niall MacDermot, QC, MP

Financial Secretary, Treasury (Itens 3-5)

Mr. Robert Mellish, MP

Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Item 4)

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