HC Deb 01 October 1941 vol 374 c590W
Mr. Sorensen

asked the Home Secretary whether he has seen a copy of the camp rules for the Tatura internment camp, Australia, where transported internees are detained; whether he is aware: that the internees resent the assumption that they have Nazi or Fascist sympathies and the implications conveying this in the rules; and whether, in view of the unnecessary humiliation imposed upon the internees, he will make representations on the matter to the Australian Government?

Mr. Peake

The hon. Member has kindly sent me a copy of the rules to which he refers. As may be inferred from the heading to them, they apply to a group of camps, in some of which are prisoners of war and internees of Nazi or Fascist sympathies. I do not. therefore, see how any objection can be taken to a rule forbidding Nazi or Fascist propaganda or salutes.