5. Miss Rathboneasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the hon. and gallant Member for Wellingborough (Wing-Commander James) is still attached to the British Embassy in Madrid; and whether, in view of this gentleman's persistent refusal throughout the Spanish civil war to recognise the extent and danger of German and Italian intervention, he will reconsider this appointment?
§ Mr. ButlerThe answer to the first part of the Question is in the affirmative. Since he has been attached to His Majesty's Embassy in Spain, the hon. and gallant Member has rendered valuable services which my Noble Friend trusts he will continue to perform.
Miss RathboneIs the hon. Gentleman aware that this hon. and gallant Gentleman, in the teeth of the most irrefutable evidence, continued to believe that Guernica was destroyed by the Spaniards instead of by the German and Italian planes?
§ Mr. DenvilleOn a point of Order. I would like to ask you, Mr. Speaker, whether the Chair has any power to prevent questions which are dangerous to the State?