Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Fiji – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 16 June 1964.
Sir Alec Douglas-Home
, Kinross and West Perthshire
12:00,
16 June 1964
I have no doubt that we could mobilise plenty of historians to do the job, but I do not think the Question on the Order Paper has anything to do with Suez. It asks how many official historians are employed writing the histories of military operations. I have already answered Questions about Suez. Official historians deal with military matters and I do not think that there is any case for an official history of the Suez operation.
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