CAB148-30-Defence and Oversea Policy Committee Meetings Relating to 1967 Disturbances-1967 — Page 321

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(THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT)

OPD(67) 38th Meeting

CABINET

COPY NO.

72

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

MINUTES of a Meeting held at

10 Downing Street, S.W.1.,

on WEDNESDAY, 29th NOVEMBER 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 (Item 3)

The Rt. Hon. Denis Healey, MP

Secretary of State for Defence

The Rt. Hon. Michael Stewart, MP

First Secretary of State

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 Rt. Hon. George Thomson, MP

Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs

THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT:

The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Longford,

Lord Privy Seal

Mr. J.P.W. Mallalieu, MP

Minister of State, Board of Trade

Marshal of the Royal Air Force,

Sir Charles Elworthy, Chief of the Defence Staff

General Sir James Cassels,

Chief of the General Staff

The Rt. Hon. Reginald Prentice, MP Minister of Overseas Development

Sir Arthur Irvine, QC, MP

Solicitor-General (Item 1)

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 Trond

Mr. E.M. Rose

Mr. H.L. Lawrence-Wilson

Mr. N.C.C. French

Major-General J.H. Gibbon

CONTENTS:

Item No.

Subject

Page

1.

GIBRALTAR: TALKS IN MADRID

1

2.

FRANCE AND THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE

3

3.

NEGOTIATIONS ON ECONOMIC AID FOR SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA: THE SECOND STAGE

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