§ 49. Mr. Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs which documents, not open to public inspection, have been made available to certain writers on the history of the Suez operation; and whether he will now make such documents freely available for public inspection.
§ Mr. Selwyn LloydThe answer to the first part of the Question is, "None, Sir." The second part of the Question does not arise.
§ Mr. HamiltonIs the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that he himself attended the introduction of a book by Mr. John Connell which was, in the words of the Manchester Guardian, a "heavy- breathing apologia" for the Government's Suez fiasco? Mr. John Connell asserts that he had available to him documents not open to public inspection. Is the Minister now saying that Mr. John Connell is not speaking the truth when he says that, or is the right hon. and learned Gentleman not speaking the truth when he says that those documents were not available to Mr. John Connell?
§ Mr. LloydI do not know what private documents of one sort or another Mr. Connell had access to, but I do know that he certainly had no access to any Foreign Office papers.