§ 40. Mr. Kenyonasked the secretary of State for War if he will state from his present information how many of the Spanish Republican prisoners, who have been detained at Chorley, were compulsorily forced into the Todt organisation.
§ Mr. BellengerI understand that all these men were, according to statement taken from the men themselves, forcibly conscripted into the Todt or other similar German organisations.
§ Group-Captain Wilcockasked the Secretary of State for War why Press representatives are not permitted to visit No. 1 Camp, Sudbury, where the Republican Spaniards are now held, pending demobilisation.
§ Mr. LawsonIt is the normal practice to ask the Commanding Officer's permission before allowing the Press to visit military camps, and in this particular case the Commanding Officer considered that a Press visit would be inopportune at the present time.