HC Deb 17 December 1956 vol 562 cc108-9W
103. Mr. M. Stewart

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will place in the Library of the House of Commons the scripts of the Foreign Office broadcasts which have so far gone out from the Sharq-al-Adna broadcasting station in Cyprus.

Mr. Ormsby-Gore

These broadcasts are made in Arabic and the local representatives of the station in Cyprus have discretion to amend or omit scripts and recordings which are prepared in London. At the present time, I am loth to authorise the considerable expenditure of time and money which would be required to translate and duplicate the definitive texts as they are put out by Cyprus. I have, however, arranged for the preparation of a full set of the English scripts from 7th November onwards as they were prepared in London, which I will gladly send to the hon. Member as soon as it is available.