§ Colonel WEDGWOODasked the Secretary of State for War if he will authorise the issue of protecting certificates to British subjects of alien parentage in the same manner as since November, 1920, has been followed in the case of aliens?
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANSI am not prepared to differentiate between British subjects of alien parentage and other British subjects. Any British subject is, in the matter of service in the British Army, on quite a different footing from an alien. As my right hon. Friend, the present Secretary of State for the Colonies, indicated in reply to a question on 15th December last, the military authorities are empowered to issue protecting certificates in all cases in which their merits deserve that concession, and I am not prepared to go further.