Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Information. – in the House of Commons at on 9 April 1941.
Captain Alec Cunningham-Reid
, St Marylebone
That being so, why is it that a photograph such as I am holding in my hand at the present moment, showing one German airman trying to carry a wounded comrade at a London railway station, has been allowed to be released? Does it not show to the world an apparent lack of humanity on our part, and that we cannot even supply a stretcher for a wounded airman in London; and, further, is it not the kind of propaganda that is calculated to lay our own prisoners of war open to reprisals?