U.K, DEFENCE BILL
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, August 5. Britain’s defence bill has been slashed by £22om in the last nine months. This is more than halfway towards the Government’s target of saving £4oom by 1970, said the Defence Secretary (Mr Denis Healey) when announcing the figures yesterday. Mr Healey said that the Government was looking in the 1970’s for more co-opera-tion with its Commonwealth partners, Australia and New Zealand, in southern Asia and also closer co-operation with the United States. He hoped that money could be saved in Germany, where Britain has about 50,000 troops in its Rhine Army, by the sharing of logistics facilities with the United States and West Germany.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30822, 6 August 1965, Page 18
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