27. Mr. EDMUND HARVEYasked the Prime Minister whether he will be willing to consider evidence from Mrs. Stan Harding to show that her condemnation and imprisonment in Russia, as the result of the action of a lady who has claimed to be an American Secret Service agent, involves considerations which are more far-reaching than a personal dispute and afford grounds for the submission of her case as an aggrieved British subject to the attention of the Government of the United States
§ The PRIME MINISTERI have found on examination that it is not possible to make the further demands of Mrs. Harding the subject of representations to a foreign Government.
§ The PRIME MINISTERWith reference to fresh evidence, if it relates to an assumption that Mrs. Harrison was a secret agent of a foreign and friendly Government, it is impossible, I am informed and advised, to take any steps with regard to it.
§ Major HORE-BELISHADid the Prime Minister bear in mind the con- 2503 siderations indicated in his first answer, when he gave his pledge to the National Union of Journalists?
§ The PRIME MINISTERWe are all liable to get extra information. I did my best in the circumstances, and I find that it would be most improper to make the representation suggested.