§ Sir R. Glynasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he has any statement to make about the activities of a code-clerk, Tyler Kent, employed in the U.S.A. Embassy in 1939 and 1940, by means of which most secret information supplied to the U.S.A. Ambassador for transmission to the President of the U.S.A. was communicated to the then head of the Italian Government for the information of the Nazis; and what action has been or is being taken.
§ Mr. George HallKent is serving a sentence of seven years' penal servitude passed upon him at the Old Bailey on 7th November, 1940, for five offences against the Official Secrets Act, 1911, in respect of certain documents found at his place of residence. His Majesty's Government have no further' statement to make upon this case.