Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Post Office – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 26 February 1964.
Sir Henry Legge-Bourke
, Isle of Ely
12:00,
26 February 1964
Would my right hon. Friend elucidate a little upon his policy for the financing of all this? Is he aware that if ample opportunity is given there is considerable scope for the private sector to contribute to this matter and that this will be all the more difficult if we are linking our industry solely to the E.L.D.O. project with Europe? Will my right hon. Friend also hear in mind that there is a rôle which the Commonwealth might be able to play, complementary to but virtually independent from the United States, especially as far as the Commonwealth and the Indian Ocean are concerned?