§ 64. Mr. Callaghanasked the Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations what inquiries he has made since 13th April about the arrest of Miss Blumberg, the South African correspondent of the London Daily Herald.
§ Mr. R. ThompsonIn accordance with the undertaking which my hon. Friend gave him, the Minister of State informed the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, by letter on 25th April, that the United Kingdom High Commissioner had been asked to report any information which he could obtain about Miss Blumberg. The High Commissioner had replied that nothing had been published about the reasons for Miss Blumberg's detention and that as she is a national of the Union of South Africa it had not been possible to elicit any additional information from the Union authorities.