SECRET SESSION
SUGGESTED IN HOUSE OF LORDS OPPOSED BY GOVERNMENT. | REGARDED AS UNNECESSARY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON. November 15. A majority of the peers in the House of Lords urged a secret session, to afford more frank discussions. Lord Elton instanced war aims as a typical subject and said: "Ten weeks ago Britain was fighting for Poland against aggression. Later it appeared' she was also fighting for Czechoslovakia and now it seems we are fighting for Austria as well. He added: "Neither the Lords nor the Commons nave discussed or sanctioned this.” Earl Stanhope, replying, said the time might come when a private session would be necessary, but the country at present was united in all great matters and making such a move was unnecessary. If a secret session were adopted, the public might feel they were not getting the whole truth and thus give foreign propagandists an opportunity for malicious distortion. He added that the Government had given in general terms its war aims and that a more detailed statement at present was unnecessary.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1939, Page 6
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180SECRET SESSION Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1939, Page 6
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