Profile: Roy Jenkins

Positions that Roy Jenkins has held:

  • British Chancellor of the Exchequer (11/30/1967 - 6/19/1970)

Roy Jenkins was a participant or observer in the following events:

April 1969: British Government Approves Plans for Evacuation of Chagos Islands

British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins and Secretary of State for Defense Denis Healey approve plans to completely evacuate the Chagos Islands in order to make way for the construction of a US communications facility on Diego Garcia, the archipelago’s largest island. [British Royal Courts of Justice, 10/9/2003]

Entity Tags: Roy Jenkins, Harold Wilson, Chagossians, Denis Healey

Timeline Tags: US-Britain-Diego Garcia (1770-2004)

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