HC Deb 22 February 1951 vol 484 cc1448-9
35. Mr. Baker White

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether in the public interest he will publish a list of the names of organisations known by his Department to be ancillaries of the Communist Party, or used by the Communist Party as channels for revolutionary activity.

Mr. Ede

No, Sir. I do not think that this would be in the public interest.

Mr. White

Does not the Home Secretary consider that it is in the interests of the public to know the names of these bodies which are attempting to entrap and deceive them into thinking that they are non-Communist bodies?

Mr. Ede

Yes, Sir. But if persons looked at the list and did not find the name of a body on it, they would assume that it was all right when it might be all wrong.