Lieut.-Colonel MALONEasked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to an anonymous booklet recently issued called "The Jewish Peril"; whether he is aware that this pamphlet is a mutilation of an original Russian anti-Semitic document produced with a view to injuring the entente with Great Britain; that as now published it is intended to arouse anti-Semitic feeling in this country; and whether he will take steps to procure the suppression of this publication?
§ Mr. SHORTTI understand that the booklet "The Jewish Peril" is an English translation of a book published in Russian in 1905 by Serge Nilus. This book went through three or four editions. I am not aware that the pamphlet is a mutilation of the book nor do I know what the object of Serge Nilus was in publishing his work. I fear that the law confers no powers upon me to procure the suppression of the publication.