MRS. ASQUITH'S BOOK

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 75, 22 December 1920, Page 7

MRS. ASQUITH'S BOOK

QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT

T ~ ■ „ London, November 18. in the House of Commons to-day Mrs. Asquitll s famous book of reminiscences wns- obviously meant in a question by General Sir Newton Moore to the Prime Minister, asking whether the lattcr's attention had been drawn to the fact that certain volumes just published contuincd copies of- secret State documents, and whether he proposed to take steps to prevent further disclosures in the future. ' Mr. Lloyd George replied that he had not rend the works referred to. but it was ail obligation on Ministers, Admirals, and Generals not to disclose confidential statements without the previous consent of the Gove^mont. A member interjected: What about their wives?"

Tiic Prime Minister did not replv. ' Preaching in Durham Cathedral. Bishop Welldon, Dean of Durham, pleaded- that writers must not, violate the sanctities of private life. He deplored boolcs written by responsible persons in which the veil of delicacy and decencv was torn aside. Everybody regretted that such bad ta-ste should bo associated even indirectly with the highest political officc in the land.