§ Mr. W. Adamsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why his Department refused to issue permits to three members of the Young Co-operators to enable them to attend the second Free German Youth Parliament.
§ Mr. MayhewThese three young men originally submitted individual applications for travel facilities. These were refused on the grounds that the restricted facilities in Germany had to be used in the best interests of the occupying authorities and were normally only made available to members of recognised organisations and not to individuals. There was also the further point that, as no Youth organisations from the British zone were to participate in this conference in the Russian zone.156W it would have been difficult to justify the attendance of individual delegates from England. Later, when it became known that a delegation from this country had been formally invited there was not sufficient time before the conference opened to reconsider the matter.