HC Deb 10 September 1941 vol 374 cc167-8
17. Commander Bower

asked the Cinder-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he has considered the resolution passed by the assembly in Bermuda deprecating the proposed change in the Governorship of the Colony, and asking for renewed assurances that no change in the sovereignty of the islands is contemplated now or in the future; and what answer has been given?

Mr. Shakespeare

My hon. and gallant Friend has been misinformed. The Governor of Bermuda has received a message from the House of Assembly, in which the recent decision regarding the Governorship of the Colony is loyally accepted, and the House undertakes during the continuance of the present emergency to make the necessary provision for a civilian Governor and his establishment.

Commander Bower

Is it a fact, then, that the widely spread Press reports in the sense of my Question were inaccurate, or is the Minister referring to some subsequent resolution passed?

Mr. Shakespeare

The accounts that I saw in the Press were only partial, but they certainly did not coincide with the facts as I knew them.