§ 59. Mr. de Freitasasked the Minister of Defence whether he will issue a White Paper covering the operations over the last four years in the Arabian Peninsula of the aircraft of the Royal Air Force and of the ground forces under Royal Air Force command.
§ Mr. SandysDuring these four years, operations of many different kinds have had to be undertaken, at a variety of places, for the defence of the Aden Protectorates and to assist other friendly States in the Arabian Peninsula.
Since many of these operations were unconnected with one another, it would not be appropriate to catalogue them together in a White Paper.
Statements have been made to the House from time to time about the more important actions and I should be glad to consider giving the hon. Member any further information on any particular operation in which he may be interested.