§ 81. Major ARCHER - SHEEasked whether Mr. Poutsma, who has been deported from South Africa by the South African Union Government, is a British subject; and whether, if he is not a British subject, he will be refused admission to this country as an undesirable alien?
§ Mr. McKENNAAs I informed the hon. Member for the Blackfriars Division of Glasgow on Monday last, Mr. Poutsma has stated that he is a naturalised British subject. In any case he would not, so far as I am aware, be, within the meaning of Section 1 (3) of the Aliens Act, 1905, an undesirable immigrant to whom leave to land in the United Kingdom may be refused.
§ Major ARCHER-SHEEMay I ask first, whether Mr. Poutsma is a naturalised British subject in the United Kingdom; and, secondly, whether the right hon. Gentleman will introduce legislation to amend the Aliens Act so that desperadoes of this character—[Interruption.]
§ Mr. SPEAKERThe hon. Member had better put the question upon the Paper.
§ Mr. W. THORNEIs Mr. Thornton, the new manager of the Great Eastern, an alien?