Polar Bears
Received Monday, 7 p.m. LONDON, June 14. The business of the House of Commons was enlivened during question tiine when Mr. A. M, F. Palmer (Lahour, Wimbledon) asked the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Harold Wilson) whv import licences had been granted for twelve bears which landed . ia Glasgow from Belgium last m'onth. Mr. Wiis,on said the animals in question . were polar bears and that they had been landed for entertainment purposes. With the cancellation of the troQping of the colour parade fresh in their > rnipds,, n.iembers plainly enjoyed the allusion wlien Brigadier MediicotC . asked: ".Can we be agsured. they have not been brought he.re as a resuit of misleading information about our climate given by the Meteorologiea! Offiee?"
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 June 1948, Page 5
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