§ 80. Mr. Awberyasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he is now in a position to state the results of the talks which have been proceeding between the representatives of the Chief Minister of Malaya and the insurgents which took place in North Malaya recently.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe purpose of these talks was to make arrangements for a meeting between the Chief Ministers of the Federation and Singapore and the leader of the Communist terrorists. The Communist representative asked for assurances that the Communist delegates at this meeting would be supplied with food and that their personal safety would be respected: these assurances were given. No date for the meeting has yet been settled.