§ 20. Mr. DINGLE FOOTasked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the fact that the British Board of Film Censors recently refused to license a film on the ground that while the film in no way infringed their rules Fascists might cause disturbances at its performance, he will institute an inquiry into the methods of the board and the general question of film censorship?
§ Sir J. GILMOURI would refer the hon. Member to the reply given by the Prime Minister on the 31st January to the hon. and gallant Member for Cardiff, South (Captain Evans), but I may add that the decision in the case of this particular film does not appear to afford any ground for an inquiry into the general question of censorship.
§ Mr. FOOTDoes not the right hon. Gentleman appreciate that if this sort of precedent is followed the Fascists are constituted a second board of censors?