§ Mr. R. Morganasked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether, since exit permits are being granted to editors of technical journals to visit liberated territories on the Continent, he will increase facilities available to representatives of industrial and commercial undertakings who had extensive business interests in such territories in pre-war days.
§ Mr. JohnstoneMy Department is not responsible for sponsoring applications for visits abroad made by members of the Press. As I explained on 10th October, in reply to the Noble Lady the Member for Hemel Hempstead (Viscountess Davidson) my Department has received applications for exit permits from business men who desire to visit the interior zone in France and is doing all that is possible to facilitate such visits. But it should be understood that visits are subject to the grant of a visa by the French authorities.