HC Deb 20 January 1969 vol 776 cc28-9W
Mr. Biggs-Davison

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on what grounds he objected to the extension of the period of emergency in Rhodesia from three to six months, which period obtains in other parts of Africa and of the Commonwealth.

Mr. George Thomson

I have been asked to reply. 1 explained in my statement to the House on 18th November, 1968, why we could not accept this proposal.—[Vol. 773, c. 899.]