Summary
Description: Subjects discussed between William P. Rogers and the Prime Minister included the situation in the Middle East, NATO matter, SALT and African problems. Subject discussed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Rogers include European questions, particularly East/West relations and European unity, maintaining troop levels in Europe, the Middle East, the Gulf, South East Asia (including the situation in Indo-China) and SALT, the recent injection of Soviet arms near the Suez Canal the possibility that Egyptians could seize the canal, US request for missile testing in the Phoenix Islands, UK arms for Africa, Rhodesia, Thailand, Laos. Parliamentary questions on Rogers' visit to the UK. Transcript of Secretary of State Rogers' press conference in Washington in which he talks about the SEATO meeting, the Nixon doctrine, Vietnam and pacification, Cambodia, Japan, Vietnamization, China's influence on North Vietnam and Soviet Arms capacity increasing in front of SALT talks in Helsinki.
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The Nixon years, 1969-1974.