§ Mr. BOTTOMLEYasked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the practice 169W of his predecessor in office, he will reconsider his refusal to give the names of the British-born sponsors in the case of the naturalisation, after the commencement of the War, of Caroline Hanemann, now denaturalised?
§ Mr. SHORTTIf the hon. Member will refer to the answer given by my predecessor on the 25th October, 1917, in the case of Laszlo he will find that it was only on account of the special importance of the Laszlo case that an exception was there made to the general practice of not giving the names of referees. The case of Hanemann is not of the same order of importance as that of Laszlo. No Member, past or present, of this House was concerned with the naturalisation, and I see no reason for making an exception to the general practice.