§ 8. Mr. DORANasked the Home Secretary if he will issue instructions authorising the police and other authorities to remove persons selling antiwar, Communist, Fascist, and other literature outside any charity entertainments, tattoos, and fetes organised by any of the services in the Metropolitan area?
§ Mr. HACKINGThe police take appropriate action in cases where the sale or distribution of literature in the streets leads to obstruction or is calculated to lead to a breach of the peace, or where the literature itself is of such a character as to contravene the law. As at present advised, my right hon. Friend does not think that any further instructions to the police are called for.
§ 10. Mr. DORANasked the Home Secretary what steps he has taken to discover the persons who placed antiwar and Comunist notices over the "A A" road signs leading to the Royal Air Force display at Hendon; and if he is prepared to take steps to see that such a thing does not occur again?
§ Mr. HACKINGI am informed by the Commissioner of Police that a few of the notices referred to were partly obscured by handbills being placed over them by some persons unknown and that the police have not been able to discover the persons responsible. The handbillls were destroyed by passers-by and the action of the weather.