Mr. Dinh Ba Thi

HC Deb 10 March 1969 vol 779 cc234-5W

Mr. Winnick

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why Mr. Dinh Ba Thi, a National Liberation Front South Vietnamese representative, was not allowed to enter Great Britain to attend meetings to which he had been invited.

Mrs. Renée Short

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why Mr. Dinh Ba Thi has not been allowed to enter this country, to put the case of the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front.

Mr. Callaghan

Because it was not clear that the criterion indicated in the Answer I gave on 19th December to a Question by the hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) would be met.—[Vol. 775, c.442–3.]