CAB148-30-Defence and Oversea Policy Committee Meetings Relating to 1967 Disturbances-1967 — Page 63

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

OPD(67) 8th Meeting

CABINET

DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE

COPY NO. 76

MINUTES of a Meeting held in

10 Downing Street, S.W.1.,

on THURSDAY, 23rd FEBRUARY 1967 at 5.30 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 (Item 2)

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 (Item 2)

The Rt. Hon. Roy Jenkins, MP Secretary of State for the Home Department

THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT:

The Rt. Hon. Patrick Gordon Walker, MP

Minister without Portfolio

The Rt. Hon. Lord Shackleton,

Minister without Portfolio

The Rt. Hon. George Thomson, MP

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

(Item 2)

Mr. Robert Mellish, MP

Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Housing and

Local Government

(Item 2)

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

The Rt. Hon. George Wigg, MP

Paymaster-General

Mr. Gerald Reynolds, MP

Minister of Defence (Administration) (Item 2)

General Sir James Cassels, Chief of General Staff

Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Elworthy, Vice-Admiral Sir John Bush,

Chief of Air Staff

Vice-Chief of Naval Staff

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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