§ 13. Colonel WEDGWOODasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the legal rights and position of those openly professing Communist doctrines are more limited or circumscribed in those territories for which His Majesty's Government hold the mandate than they are in this country; and, in particular, whether his attention has been drawn to a recent prosecution of Communists in Palestine?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister)Freedom of conscience in the mandated territories is ensured to all, subject only to the maintenance of public order and morals. I have no information as to the prosecution to which the right hon. Member refers.
§ Colonel WEDGWOODMay I ask whether, in general, the English practice of law allows the expression of opinion in mandated territories?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTERI should like to have notice of that question. I am not sure that there is not a certain variation in the laws in the different territories.