§ 2. Mr. DINGLE FOOTasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that on 20th March Mr. A. W. Palmer, a British subject travelling in Germany on business, was detained by the police at Chemnitz on 1962 the ground that he had taken a photograph of the outside of a public hall within which an anti-aircraft exhibition was being held, although no notice was exhibited prohibiting photographs; that he was detained for over two hours and interrogated by police officers; that he was refused permission to communicate with the British Consul or to telephone to his friends; and what action, if any, he proposes to take?
§ Sir J. SIMONI have seen in the Press an account of Mr. Palmer's experiences in Germany, and I have requested His Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin to furnish me with a report on the matter.