HC Deb 20 January 1954 vol 522 cc979-80
5. Captain Ryder

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty when the first volume of the "Official History of the War at Sea" will be published.

Mr. J. P. L. Thomas

I understand that the first volume will be published in May this year.

Captain Ryder

Has there not been rather a long delay in its production? Could my right hon. Friend say when the manuscript was completed?

Mr. Thomas

The promise was that the first volume should appear during 1953. It is ready now and I think it is therefore only a few weeks later than originally intended. There were reasons of sickness to account for that delay.