HC Deb 07 July 1969 vol 786 cc190-1W
107. Mr. Biggs-Davison

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will arrange to defray the expenses of British subjects in Rhodesia who have to resort to Her Majesty's Embassy or consular officials in Pretoria because of the closing of the United Kingdom Residual Mission in Salisbury.

Mr. Foley

No. The closing of a United Kingdom post in one part of the world is never ground for meeting the expenses of British subjects in their resort to another.

Mr. Hector Hughes

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will seek to organise and attend a conference of coloured persons and their sympathisers in Rhodesia in order to elicit their views on the recent attempted constitutional changes there.

Mr. Foley

I am afraid that this would not be practicable. But, as my right hon. Friend said in the House on 24th June, I have no doubt that the immense weight of African opinion is against these constitutional proposals.—[Vol. 785, c. 1224.]