§ Brigadier-General SPEARSasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that the War Memoirs of the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs, now appearing in a London daily newspaper, in which attacks are made on a retired British officer, contain extracts from the Secret Summary of the Military Situation prepared by the general staff for the confidential information of the War Cabinet in 1918; and whether he will allow the officer attacked to make use of these secret summaries in any reply he may desire to make?
§ Sir V. WARRENDERThe secret summaries in question have now a purely historical interest, and, in the circumstances, my right hon. Friend sees no reason why access to them should be denied.