Mr. G. DOYLEasked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to a recent case, at the Old Bailey in which a naturalised Englishman named John Berkley, an Austrian, formerly John Max Klempner, was convicted and sentenced to nine months' hard labour on each of five different counts of common assault on young women and to 12 months for an improper assault, both to run concurrently; and whether he will consider what arrangements can be made to denaturalise this man and have him deported as a danger to the community?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANYes, Sir; my attention has been called to the case and I have considered the suggestion that this man should be denaturalised. It appears, however, that he was naturalised as long ago as 1894, and I am advised that no proceedings for the revocation of his certificate are now possible.