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OPD (67) 22nd Meeting

CABINET

67

COPY NO.

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

MINUTES of a Meeting held at

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

MONDAY, 12th JUNE 1967 at 11.00 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

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. Richard Crossman, MP Lord President of the Council

The Rt. Hon. Roy Jenkins, MP

Secretary of State for the Home Department

THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT:

The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Longford,

Lord Privy Seal

The Rt. Hon. Lord Shackleton,

Minister without Portfolio

Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull,

Chief of the Defence Staff

The Rt. Hon. Arthur Bottomley, MP

Minister of Overseas Development

The Rt. Hon. George Wigs, MP

Paymaster-General

Admiral Sir Varyl Begg,

Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord

Air Chief Marshal Sir John Grandy,

Chief of the Air Staff

General Sir James Cassels,

Chief of the General Staff

SECRETARIAT:

Sir Burke Trend

Mr. P. Rogers

Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson Major-General J.H. Gibbon

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CONTENTS:

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VENEET,CROSS

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SOUTH ARABIA

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S

DRAFT CONSTITUTION

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SOUTH ARABIA POSSIBLE ASSURANCE OF DEFENCE BY LAND BASED AIRCRAFT AT SHARJAH OR MASTRAH

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