| Description | Harold Wilson and Michael Stewart look on in dismay at a battlefield with numerous dead, razor wire, tanks, generals, etc. They each hold a sack bulging with weapons and aircraft, marked "Lagos".
[Stewart returned to the Foreign Office from 1968 to 1970. As foreign secretary, he was instrumental in supplying arms to support the Nigerian government's crushing of the secessionist movement in Biafra (when up to one million people died) - source: Wikipedia]
News (3rd July): There were hints of a Cabinet policy review on Britain's arms supplies to Nigeria. (The Times Index, May-June 1969). |