Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 February 1964.
Mr Peter Thorneycroft
, Monmouth
12:00,
19 February 1964
Certainly it could be done without legislation. While the Norwegian proposal was supported by us, I think, at the United Nations, it was not considered appropriate that permanent members of the Security Council should as a general rule make their forces permanently available upon this basis. As I have said, we really are making very large numbers of forces available throughout the world for keeping the peace.