Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Aliens – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 December 1947.
Mr James Ede
, South Shields
12:00,
4 December 1947
Permission was given to these two brothers to come to this country for a visit to deal with the business interests which they acquired during their residence here before the war. They will be expected to leave as soon as the purpose of their business visit has been fulfilled. I have no reason to suppose that they will engage in undesirable activities but in the event of them engaging in activities other than the business purposes for which the visit was authorised their stay would be terminated immediately.