§ 41. Mrs. Tateasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information whether, in view of the difficulty experienced by private persons wishing to send newspapers and pamphlets to the United States of America, he will see that a large consignment of Sir Nevile Henderson's reports on the outbreak of hostilities are shipped to America by his Ministry, as they would be of great interest to American citizens and have considerable propaganda value?
§ Sir E. GriggThe hon. Lady seems to be under a misapprehension. There is nothing to prevent private persons from sending to the United States of America documents such as the one she refers to; and in this connection I would refer her to the answer given to the hon. Lady the Member for Wallsend (Miss Ward) on 17th October, by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War. With regard to her suggestion that the Ministry of Information should ship a large consignment of Sir Nevile Henderson's final report to the United States of America, the British Library of Information in New York regularly orders from His Majesty's Stationery Office sufficient quantities of the latter's publications to meet the 1921 demands made on it by the American public. The hon. Lady will be glad to know that the Stationery Office has given permission for the document to be reprinted by an American firm for publication in the United States of America.