REPORT APPROVED
PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS FINDING AGAINST ARMY COUNCIL BOTTOM KNOCKED OUT OF DEBATE By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day. 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, July 11. In the House of Commons the Speaker (Captain E. A. Fitzroy, Manchester), knocked the bottom out of the debate on the report of the Committee of Privileges with reference to Mr D. Sandys’s case by ruling that it would be out of order to discuss the action of the Secretary for War (Mr L. Hore Belisha). The Committee of Privileges has found the Army Council guilty of a breach of privilege in summoning'Mr Sandys before a military court after Mr Chamberlain's statement that the Government was appointing a select committee to consider the application of the Official Secrets Act to members of the House of Commons. Mr Chamberlain moved the approval of the report on the ground that it upheld the principle that members of the House of Commons should not be prevented or hampered in their functions in their service to the State by outside pressure.
The House approved the report without a division.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1938, Page 8
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184REPORT APPROVED Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1938, Page 8
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