HC Deb 19 December 1973 vol 866 c305W
19. Mr. Hugh Jenkins

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will offer asylum to all British subjects illegally detained without trial in Rhodesia and request the Smith régime to facilitate their passage to the United Kingdom at Government expense.

Lord Balniel

Where the Rhodesian authorities have allowed detainees to go abroad we have provided them with passport facilities, allowed them to come to Britain and, when appropriate, provided them with study grants. But with regard to African leaders we have all along urged Mr. Smith that he should neither detain nor deport them but should talk to them.