Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Palestine. – in the House of Commons at on 6 September 1939.
In view of the fact that all the women's organisations in this country have been pressing for years for precisely this reform, that a woman on marrying a foreign subject should not necessarily acquire the nationality of her husband, and they have always been told that it was impossible to arrange that, could it not be arranged now in regard to women who were British before their marriage?