§ 53. Mr. Charles Smithasked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether his attention has been drawn to the speech recently made by Sir Sholto Douglas to the Advisory Council in the British zone, stating that a term should be fixed after which the denazification process should cease and no more measures should be taken against men whose records might be black but whose activities have been purely nominal; and whether this represents the policy of His Majesty's Government.
§ Mr. J. HyndIn the course of his address to the German Advisor) Council in the British zone, the Commander-In-Chief referred to the handing over of much of the work of denazification:o committees composed of anti-Nazi Germans. He then said—I quote his exact words:
We have done this because you must know best who are the men who should be punished, and you can best advise us regarding men whose record may look black, but whose activities were purely nominal.I do not know how it was that an incorrect version of this statement became available to the Press. I am making inquiries to find out what occurred.