§ 8. Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the firm of Allhausen and Company, of Carter Lane, E.C, consists of Anton Ramisch and Ernest Kabisch, both aliens; and will he say, if they are unnaturalised, why are they not interned; and, if they are naturalised, why are they not called up?
§ Sir G. CAVEI am informed that this firm consists of three partners—the two mentioned and the first-named's eldest son, who was born in this country and is therefore a British subject. Ramisch and Kabisch have been exempted from repatriation and internment respectively on the advice of the Advisory Committee. The former is an Austrian, aged sixty, who has resided here for thirty-eight years, and has two British-born sons, the eldest of whom has volunteered for the British Army, but has been rejected on medical grounds. The latter is a Hanoverian, who come to this country at the age of seventeen, after obtaining his discharge from German nationality, and has been resident here for between twenty-five and twenty-six years. I see no sufficient ground at present for revoking these exemptions, but Kabisch will be required to undertake work of national importance forthwith.
§ Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSWill the right hon. Gentleman see that if these gentlemen are still unnaturalised they will be roped in to do national work if they are not interned?
§ Sir G. CAVEThe younger men certainly will be.