§ 14. Mr. Dalyellasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will put in the Library a copy of his speech to the South East Asia Treaty Organisation conference at Canberra.
§ Sir Alec Douglas-HomeI did so on 12th July.
§ Mr. DalyellAs a matter of curiosity, may I ask why the Foreign Secretary inserted into his brief on this occasion a rather snide attack on the Americans for, of all things, helping to run down the British Empire too quickly, and why was this subsequently denied in a great flurry by the Foreign Office?
§ Sir Alec Douglas-HomeI do not think it a bad thing to remind the Americans occasionally of what they did.