HC Deb 11 November 1941 vol 374 c2042
75. Mr. Stokes

asked the Home Secretary whether the British subject, who sent the telegrams to President Roosevelt, thereby irregularly evading the censorship, which telegrams are alleged to have been shown by Mr. Tyler Kent to the hon. and gallant Member for Peebles and Southern (Captain Ramsay), has been prosecuted under paragraphs 1 and 4A of Defence Regulation 10; and, if so, with what result?

Mr. H. Morrison

No information could properly be given about confidential documents which were abstracted from the American Embassy, but whatever may have been the nature of the documents in question, they do not provide the slightest foundation for the suggestion that someone had been guilty of evading the censorship or contravening Defence Regulation No. 10.

Mr. McGovern

Were any of these cablegrams or messages sent by the Prime Minister behind the back of the then Prime Minister?

Mr. Morrison

I have nothing to add to the answer that I have given.