§ 18. Mr. T. P. O'CONNORasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that Dr. N. K. Lanitis, advocate, of Limassol, Cyprus, has been refused by the British Government in Cyprus a certificate of British nationality, thus depriving him, a Greek Cypriot, of political rights in his own country; whether he is aware of the long connection of Dr. Lanitis with Cyprus, and that his father's grandfather was a priest in the village of Lama and his 11 mother belonged to two old Limassol families, and that Dr. Lanitis himself, though an Ottoman subject, was a volunteer in the Greek army in the Greco-Turkish war of 1912-13, after which he was granted a Greek passport though unable to obtain Greek nationality without living two years in Greece; and whether he will have the matter investigated and the application for British nationality accepted before the elections take place in Cyprus in September?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREMy right hon. Friend is not fully informed as to the facts regarding Mr. Lanitis's nationality, and he is asking the Acting-Governor of Cyprus to report fully on the matter as soon as possible.