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Oral Answers to Questions — Card Game.

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 6 February 1939.

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Photo of Mr Harry Day Mr Harry Day , Southwark Central

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to a new card game, first introduced in America, ridiculing prominent English personages, including incidents relating to the British Crown; and will he take steps, either by legislation or otherwise, to prohibit the circulation of the same in Great Britain?

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