Debate on the Address

Part of Orders of the Day — Queen's Speech – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 31 October 1962.

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Photo of Mr Christopher Mayhew Mr Christopher Mayhew , Woolwich East 12:00, 31 October 1962

Without for a moment, of course, extenuating the duplicity of the Soviet Government, can the right hon. Gentleman say whether President Kennedy was informed that the weapons were defensive or that they had merely a defensive capacity in the sense that other nations regard certain weapons as being of a defensive character? I am merely asking whether the American President was told that these weapons had a defensive capacity?