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Oral Answers to Questions — Obscene Publications.

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 11 March 1929.

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Photo of Mr Harry Day Mr Harry Day , Southwark Central

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asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the existing law regarding literary censorship in relation to the sale of books and publications, he will consider the appointment of a committee having as its object the need of revision and clarification of the law relating to indecency and obscenity in literature?

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