CAB148-30-Defence and Oversea Policy Committee Meetings Relating to 1967 Disturbances-1967 — Page 41

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OPD (67) 5th Meeting

CABINET

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

82

COPY NO.

MINUTES of a Meeting held at

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

MONDAY, 6th FEBRUARY 1967 at 2.30 p.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. Herbert Bowden, MP,

Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs

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. George Wigg, MP,

Paymaster-General

Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull, Chief of the Defence Staff

General Sir James Cassels,

Chief of the General Staff

The Rt. Hon. Arthur Bottomley, MP, Minister of Overseas Development

Mrs. Judith Hart, MP,

Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs

Admiral Sir Varyl Begg,

Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord

Air Marshal Sir Brian Burnett,

Vice-Chief of the Air Steff

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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