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Whitehall Gardens became the main Ministry of Defence building. Three thousand staff were concentrated there, many brought in from other buildings. Those who were already there were moved into new offices. The newly assembled staff were still finding their way around, and the paint was still new on the nameplates of the new-style ministerial appointments when the October 1964 election returned a Labour Government. This Government, re-elected with a larger majority in 1966, remained in power until 1970.
The next major step was still to lie with Mr Macmillan. Just over four years after the 1958 White Paper he felt that the time was opportune to return to the issue. Progress had been made on other major national and international issues: in the defence area notably Polaris. He had replaced Mr Watkinson with Mr Peter Thorneycroft. Lord Mountbatten was still there and Mr Macmillan had the The Early Years 23 impression that the current generation of single-Service Chiefs of Staff was not all against change.
ALTERNATIVE MEASURES The timing of the submission of the report was fortuitous. Defence ministers had been under continuous pressure for two years reviewing all aspects of the defence programme. Irrespective of the views of those in the field, they had themselves acquired considerable experience of the strengths and weaknesses of the new structure, and also of the pressures within Whitehall and more narrowly within the Ministry itself, on the basis of which they could judge the feasibility and acceptability of further changes.