asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can now state why the book entitled ''I was a Nazi Flyer," written by a German prisoner of war interned in Canada, was published in America without reference to or authority by the War Office?

Inquiries have now established that the book to which my hon. Friend refers is a work of fiction by a German free lance writer in New York. No German prisoner bearing the name attributed to the author is known either to the War Office or to the Canadian authorities, and the numerous inaccuracies in the book make it clear that its contents are wholly imaginary, except where they are based on facts already well-known to the public.

Is the right hon. and gallant Gentleman aware that in the "blurbs" of the book it is stated that it was written by a prisoner?

I am responsible for a good deal but not for "blurbs."