§ 33. Sir G. REIDasked the Home Secretary if the Government has fully considered the contrast between the lot of His Majesty's subjects who are compelled to give up their businesses and employments in order to fight alien enemies abroad, and the lot of alien enemies living in this country who are allowed to slip into the shoes of our business men whilst they are away on military service; and if he will explain the justification for such a state of things?
§ Sir G. CAVEAs I have explained, in answer to previous questions on this subject and in the statement I made in the Debate on 14th February, every case of 595 an alien enemy exempted from internment or repatriation is being reviewed with the object of securing that he shall be employed on some work which is necessary or useful to the country during the War, and I have already made orders for the internment of several exempted aliens who have failed to find such employment. If my right hon. Friend knows of any cases in which alien enemies have supplanted British subjects called up for military service, I shall be glad to have particulars of them.