HC Deb 18 March 1940 vol 358 c1633
45. Mr. Garro Jones

asked the Prime Minister upon which Minister or Ministers falls the responsibility for deciding what measures of restriction and counter espionage, other than censorship, it is desirable to impose in the national interests upon foreign telegrams?

The Prime Minister

The Secretary of State for War, who is the Minister responsible for postal and telegraph censorship, decides, after consultation with the other Departments concerned, what measures of restriction it is desirable to impose in the national interests on foreign telegrams.

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