HC Deb 15 December 1942 vol 385 cc1789-90W
Mr. Pritt

asked the Secretary of State for War why he is assisting or permitting the recommendation and distribution to the troops of the book entitled "Is to-morrow Hitler's?"; and whether, as it libels the morals and habits of the Soviet peoples, accuses their Premier of wholesale assassination, identifies them and their political system with that of the Nazis whom we are pledged to uproot, endeavours to stir up hatred against our Allies, described, inter alia, as more savage and cruel than Germans, he will end such assistance and remove the book from the approved list for the Forces?

Sir J. Grigg

The Forces Book Club provides for the Services a supply of books of a wide range of interest at cheap rates. The books selected are intended to appeal to various tastes and points of view but the fact that a book is selected in no way gives official approval to or recognition of the views which the book contains. I will myself read the book in question and then consider the point raised in the last part of the Question.