CAB148-30-Defence and Oversea Policy Committee Meetings Relating to 1967 Disturbances-1967 — Page 213

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OPD(67) 26th Meeting

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COPY NO.

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

MINUTES of a Meeting held at

10 Downing Street, S.W.1.,

on WEDNESDAY, 5th JULY 1967 at 9.45 a.m.

PRESENT:

The Rt. Hon. Harold Wilson, MP

Prime Minister

The Rt. Hon. James Callaghan, MP

Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Rt. Hon. Richard Crossman, MP Lord President of the Council

The Rt. Hon. Herbert Bowden, MP

Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs

The Rt. Hon. Denis Healey, MP

Secretary of State for Defence

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. Douglas Jay, MP

President of the Board of Trade

The Rt. Hon. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, MP The Rt. Hon. Arthur Bottomley, MP

Minister of Technology

The Rt. Hon. George Wigg, MP

Paymaster-General

Mr. John Stonehouse, MP

Minister of State,

Ministry of Technology

Mr. Harold Lever, MP

Joint Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State,

Department of Economic Affairs

Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull,

Chief of the Defence Staff

General Sir James Cassels,

Chief of the General Staff

Minister of Overseas Development

The Rt. Hon. Frederick Mulley, MP

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

Sir Dingle Foot, QC, MP

Solicitor-General (Item 2)

Mr. Reginald Freeson, MP

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Power (Item 2)

Admiral Sir Varyl Begg,

Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord

Air Chief Marshal Sir John Grandy,

Chief of the Air Staff

SECRETARIAT:

Sir Burke Trend

Mr. P. Rogers

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

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ANGLO-FRENCH VARIABLE GEOMETRY AIRCRAFT

IMPORTS OF FERRO-CHROME INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM

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