Orders of the Day — Simonstown Agreement

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 February 1967.

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Photo of Mr Patrick Wall Mr Patrick Wall , Haltemprice 12:00, 8 February 1967

I certainly do agree. It is not only the possibility of a legal breaking of a contract, which the Agreement is. It needs better legal brains than mine to elucidate whether it has been broken, but I am convinced, and I think that the House is, too, that we have a moral obligation here. In the past we have refused to supply ammunition to the ships of nations engaged in war, but now, in peacetime we are refusing to supply ammunition to the ships of a friendly nation which is defending the Cape route which is so important to Britain.