§ Mr. Horabinasked the Minister of Information whether he is aware that Mr. Collin Brooks, who has been allowed to broadcast recently, is the editor of a newspaper which has been publishing material calculated to inspire distrust between this country and the United States of America; and whether, in the interest of British-American relations, he will take steps to prevent the British Broadcasting Corporation from inviting Mr. Collin Brooks to broadcast in future?
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§ Mr. Thurtle; Mr. Brooks has been used as a broadcaster by the B.B.C. for some years past, long before he assumed the editorship of the paper referred to. My right hon. Friend has had the records of Mr. Brooks' broadcasts examined and no material has been found in them calculated to inspire distrust between this country and the United States of America. My right hon. Friend cannot agree to impose an indirect censorship of the Press by refusing opportunities to a competent broadcaster because of his journalistic activities.