Ministers discuss resettlement outside the UK, but ultimately the Government accepted UK passport holders expelled from Uganda. Minutes from a Cabinet Meeting held on 7th September 1972. (CAB 128/50 f.9)
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Direct Pressure on Uganda.
In a brief discussion of this section of the memorandum it was suggested that, now that it seemed clear that President Amin was impervious to rational persuasion, the sole, though weighty, counter-vailing factor to the domestic political pressures in favour of strong action against Uganda lay in the risk of provoking him to permit or to initiate violent counter-action by the ill-disciplined Ugandan Army against Asian UKPH or against United Kingdom “belongers”, whom we should find it difficult, for geographical reasons, to protect adequately.
The Prime Minister summing up the discussion, said that the Cabinet agreed to freeze the uncommitted balance (£300,000) of past aid loans; to continue not to recruit any new technical assistance personnel for service in Uganda; to offer no further places in the United Kingdom for civilian or military trainees from Uganda; to stop deliveries of armoured vehicles for the Ugandan Army.