HC Deb 25 July 1946 vol 426 c30W
Captain F. Noel-Baker

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why His Majesty's Vice-Consul at St. Malo recently prevented three Spanish Republican exiles from travelling to Jersey for the potato harvest although they were in possession of the necessary passports and permits.

Mr. Ede

The admission of aliens to Jersey is a matter for the Island authorities. I understand these authorities sent representatives to St. Malo to recruit and grant visas to foreign workers required for the potato harvest and these representatives selected Bretons and other French nationals of whom there was an adequate number available