CAB148-30-Defence and Oversea Policy Committee Meetings Relating to 1967 Disturbances-1967 — Page 162

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OPD(67) 20th Meeting

CABINET

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

75

COPY NO.

MINUTES of a Meeting held at

10 Downing Street, S.W.1.,

on THURSDAY, 25th MAY 1967 at 9.45 a.m.

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. 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 Rt. Hon. Roy Jenkins, MP,

Secretary of State for the Home Department

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THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT

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. Frederick Mulley, MP,

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull, Chief of the Defence Staff

Vice-Admiral Sir John Bush,

Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff

The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Longford,

Lord Privy Seal

The Rt. Hon. George Wigg, MP,

Paymaster-General

Mrs. Judith Hart, MP,

Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs

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. F.A.K. Harrison

Mr. R.L.L. Facer

Major-General J.H. Gibbon

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