HC Deb 04 July 1940 vol 362 c992
35. Colonel Burton

asked the Home Secretary whether Primo Bosi, a member of the Italian Fascisti, who was recently prosecuted at Edinburgh and fined 20s. for being in possession of an automatic pistol and 97 rounds of ammunition, has now been interned as an enemy alien?

Sir J. Anderson

This man has been detained under Defence Regulation 18B as a person of hostile associations.

Colonel Burton

How many more of these people are at large, and how long is this sort of thing going on?

Sir J. Anderson

If my hon. and gallant Friend means by that, "how many more people who ought to be interned are at large?" my only answer is that all such persons are immediately interned when they are brought to my notice.

Mr. Cocks

How is it that such persons can have firearms, when Members of Parliament are not allowed to have them?