Captain Duncanasked the Home Secretary whether he will remove the ban on the publication of the "Daily Worker," so that the Communist party may be able publicly to state its present attitude to the war, without prejudice to its being banned again if necessary?
§ Mr. PeakeWhile sharing my hon. and gallant Friend's curiosity as to the present attitude of the Communist party of Great Britain, my right hon. Friend cannot regard the gratification of that curiosity as a sufficient ground for revocation of the Order which he made under the Defence Regulations in pursuance of his public duty. It is, of course, the case that the Communist party of Great Britain has other channels through which it can make clear its attitude to the war.