§ Brigadier-General SURTEESasked the Prime Minister if he will state, in view of the statement that the Russian Soviet Government purpose sending peace and trade representatives to this country, if he intends to demand effective guarantees that they will not take advantage of our hospitality to carry on an active Bolshevik Propaganda here and adopt other means to undermine and injure all authority and organised Government; and whether steps will be taken to prevent them organising an armed rising similar to that contemplated in the United States of America?
§ Mr. SHORTTI would refer to the answer I gave to the hon. and gallant Member for Barnstaple (Captain Tudor Rees) on the 11th instant in which I said that if any reprosentative of the Soviet Government is known or reasonably suspected to be coming for purposes of propaganda, permission to land will be refused. Any further steps that may be necessary to safeguard the national interests will be taken.