18 MARCH 1966, Page 6

PRESS HANDOUTS Labour No handouts when the meeting started. Rumour

that they were being prepared. At 7.51 Mr. Gerald Kaufman distributed a few to chosen chums. I got mine one minute before Mr. Wilson got to the end of his prepared speech. The hand- out was shoddily typed, poorly roneod on foolscap pages overprinted 'issued on a check against delivery basis and any portion of the speech not actually delivered should be regarded as private and confidential.' This was all right by me.

Mr. Wilson gave a five-minute preamble; followed the handout fairly carefully fof fourteen minutes and then added twenty-nine minutes from notes that he had and we had not.