CAB148-30-Defence and Oversea Policy Committee Meetings Relating to 1967 Disturbances-1967 — Page 21

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OPD(67) 3rd Meeting

CABINET

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

85

COPY NO.

MINUTES of a Meeting held in

10 Downing Street, S.W.1. on

MONDAY, 30th JANUARY 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 2 and 3)

The Rt. Hon. Denis Healey, MP,

Secretary of State for Defence

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The Rt. Hon. Michael Stewart, MP, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Items 2 and 3)

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:

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The Rt. Hon. Lord Gardiner Lord Chancellor (Item 1)

Mr. John Stonehouse, MP,

Minister of Aviation (Item 2)

Mr. George Thomas, MP,

Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs

Admiral Sir Varyl Begg,

Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord (Itens 2 and 3)

The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Longford,

Lord Privy Seal

The Rt. Hon. George Wigg,

Paymaster-General

Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull,

Chief of the Defence Staff

(Items 2 and 3)

Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Elworthy,

Chief of the Air Staff

(Items 2 and 3)

Lieutenant-General Sir Desmond Fitzpatrick,

Vice Chief of the General Staff

(Items 2 and 3)

SECRETARIAT :

Sir Burke Trend

Mr. P. Rogers

Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson

Mr. M.J. Moriarty

Major-General J.H. Gibbon

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