§ 24. Mr. Gallacherasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that, on Sunday, 6th July, supplies of a Communist party leaflet, "Solidarity with the Soviet Union," were seized by police at a meeting in a market place; and whether, as this leaflet appeals for the closest collaboration with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the struggle against Nazism, police forces throughout the country will be informed that no obstacles are to be placed in the way of its distribution?
§ Mr. H. MorrisonI have no information as to this incident, or as to the circumstances in which the police took action, but if the hon. Member will supply me with further particulars, including the place at which the incident is said to have occurred, I will have inquiry made.
§ Mr. GallacherMay I ask the Home Secretary whether, in view of the handicap from which the Communist party suffers as a result of the banning of the "Daily Worker," it would not be desirable to encourage the police to assist them in the distribution of the leaflet?
§ Mr. MorrisonI am bound to say that that is not the only handicap from which the Communist party suffers.