§ 76. Mr. KINGasked the Home Secretary whether the official who was so ill that the inquiry into the case of Mr. D. Chrysin was delayed is well enough now to allow the inquiry to be concluded; if so, with what result; and whether an apology will now be offered to Mr. Chrysin?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Brace)The officer who was responsible for a mistake in his report which led to the statement that Mr. Chrysin had left this country is still ill. I am, however, informed that Mr. Chrysin showed by certain actions some months ago that he was then closely identified with Mr. Litvinoff, and that though subsequently, as he now says, he severed that connection, he did not bring this change in his position to the notice of the authorities, and when Mr. Litvinoff was interned for a time as a hostage he was interned also. It was therefore proposed that when Mr. Litvinoff was repatriated Mr. Chrysin should go with him. Eventually he was allowed to stay here. It is not a case in which, in my opinion, any apology is due.
§ Mr. KINGIs not the whole point that the Home Office said he had been deported when he had not been deported? Is it not a gross injustice to declare to the public that a man was deported when he was never deported at all?