§ 36. Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSasked the Home Secretary whether the Advisory Committee, consisting of two of His Majesty's judges and four Members of this House, advised in the early part of the War that Gloecker, the German dentist in London, should be interned; whether, in consequence of a letter written by a lady patient, the decision of the Committee was overruled without their assent and the internment suspended; and whether he will take disciplinary measures in regard to the case?
§ Sir G. CAVEThe Advisory Committee recommended this man's internment in the summer of 1915, but on further evidence he was exempted subject to his finding two sureties in substantial amounts. The exemption was granted on a general review of the case, and had nothing to do with any lady patient. My predecessor undertook last November to reopen the case and when it came before me in January I decided that the man referred to should be interned.
§ Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSWas the suspension by order of the Committee, on which, as he knows, four Members of this House sit, or was it by order of some official in the Home Office?
§ Sir G. CAVENo, Sir. When the Committee has advised it has discharged its functions; the matter is then for the decision of the Home Secretary.