OFFICIAL SECRETS
ISSUE RAISED IN HOUSE OF COMMONS REGARDING STATEMENT BY MEMBERS DISCLOSURE ALLEGED BY WAR OFFICE (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 27. An important constitutional question relating to the privileges of members of parliament in relation to action'under the Official Secrets Act has been raised in the House of Commons, and as a result a motion has been tabled in the following terms:—“That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the substance of a statement made on June 27 by the member for Norwood, Mr Duncan Sandys, and the action of the Minister concerned, and the general question of the applicability of the Official Secrets Act to members of this House in the discharge of their Parliamentary duties.” The question arose through Mr Sandys forwarding to the War Secretary a draft of a question he proposed to put on the Order Paper, the contents of which he was later informed by the Attorney-General (Sir Donald Broadley Somervell) were held by the War Office to indicate the disclosure of secret information. The AttorneyGeneral asked Mr Sandys if he would assist in tracing the disclosure by revealing the sources of his information.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1938, Page 4
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192OFFICIAL SECRETS Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1938, Page 4
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