65. Mr. FRED HALL (Dulwich)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the grounds on which a man named W. W. French was prosecuted for an inflammatory speech recommending the removal of Lord Devonport, delivered in Hyde Park to a transport workers' demonstration; and why similar action has not been taken against another man, called Tillett, who originated the proposal to shoot the chairman of the Port of London Authority?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe proceedings against French were instituted by the police in the course of their ordinary duty. The actual words used were, in his case, deemed sufficient in law to justify proceedings; in the case of Tillett they were not.
§ Mr. LANSBURYMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he has called the attention of the police to the inflammatory and incendiary speeches delivered at Blenheim on Saturday last?