§ Colonel YATEasked the Secretary of State for India whether, considering that in March, 1919, he refused to reconsider his offer in the matter of granting Lajpat Rai a passport to return from America on the signature of peace, and a passport was accordingly granted to him last year,. he will state whether this passport was granted at the request of the Government of India; and, if not, at whose request it was granted?
§ Mr. MONTAGUThe passport was granted not by the India Office, but by the British Consul-General in New York at Lajpat Rai's request. I was consulted before it was given.
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