§ 53. Mr. BILLINGasked the Prime Minister whether his attention has been called to the information afforded by Lord Reading, containing a request that the publication of the disclosures by Mr. Rathom, of the American Secret Service, should be discontinued; would he say if this request is at the instigation of the American Government or of Lord Reading personally; if he would say whether it is proposed to accede to this request; and for what reasons it is considered in the public interest that such publications, which have appeared in all the Allied Press, should not be permitted to appear in the British Press?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWThe answer is in the negative.