OFFICIAL SECRETS
REPORT ON SANDYS CASE CONCLUSIONS OF BRITISH COMMITTEE. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION OBTAINED. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, September 28. The Official Secrets Committee in the Sandys case in its report, stated that there was no doubt that the document from which the figures were obtained was a secret one and it was believed that Mr D. Sandys, M.P., knew he was receiving secret information, but the committee is satisfied that he was unaware that Gogan was acting wrongly concerning it. The report added that Mr Sandys’s threat to the Secretary of State, that he would put down a question in Parliament, was unjustified and was the element of subsequent misunderstanding originally introduced by Mr Sandys. The committee acquitted the Attor-ney-General of any intention to threaten Mr Sandys with the use of •compulsory powers of interrogation, but thinks he could have prevented the circumstances arising thereanent. The committee expressed the opinion that no exception could be taken to the action of General Sir Edmund Ironsides in instructing Mr Sandys to be ordered to attend a court of inquiry as a witness.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1938, Page 8
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182OFFICIAL SECRETS Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1938, Page 8
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