Oral Answers to Questions — Colonial Empire – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 July 1949.
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what action he proposes to take on the American representations made to him to allow emigration from overcrowded Japan to British Colonies in South-East Asia.
No such representations have been received. The settlement of Japanese in the British or British protected territories in South-East Asia which they occupied during the war would not in any case be entertained.