BRITISH POLITICS.
REPLIES TO QUESTIONS
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(Received this day at noon.) RUGBY, Feb. 3
A number of questions were put to Mr Henderson. (Foreign Secretary) in the House of Commons this afternoon about Communist propaganda in this country.
Mr Henderson restated the Government’s position. Government were firmly determined not to be rushed into any hasty judgment in these, matters. Should cause for serious complaint arise, the Government would not hesitate to take the House into their confidence, but they must, in the first instance, be the judges as to any action which might be expedient or necessary to safeguard the interests of the country. Mr Henderson was asked if he denied a statement which appeared in the ‘L? vest in,” the organ of the 'Soviet Government, that it was futile to expect any change in the eomitern’s activity as a result of the Anglo-Soviet agreement, and if it was not a tact that from the moment the Treaty was signed, the terms of it had been flagrantly broken.
Mr Henderson said he had denied nothing. Sir Austen Chamberlain (former Foreign Secretary) recalled that on a previous occasion Mr Henderson had said he had made representations to the Soviet Ambassador about propaganda h.v the Third International, and that Mr Henderson had then stated lie had not asked for an answer. Sir A. Chamberlain asked whether the answer had now been given hv the soviet Ambassador. Mr Henderson replied that there were occasions when the public interest demanded silence.
In the Commons, Mr MacDonald in reply to a question, said the Postmaster-General had not refused to use beam wireless for overseas telephony. On the contrary the Cabinet committee was considering the subject. Mr Howard Bury: Is it not a fact Imperial beam has been neglected and allowance was made to an American company prejudicing Empire communications seriously. I understand that is inaccurate, hut the question should he addressed to the Postmaster-General.
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