Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 March 1955.
Mr Jon Rankin
, Glasgow Tradeston
12:00,
24 March 1955
—a licence to be outwith the principle we want to establish. We are trying to limit the horror comic, and we are trying to bring it under control and to keep it away from children, but if there is not a very exact definition, a more exact definition than we have yet had from the Attorney-General, of what publication we have in mind we shall at the same time confer on newspapers, through their junior editions, a freedom or licence which we are seeking, in the interests of the children, to withdraw from other publications. That is a point about which, I hope, the Attorney-General will have something to say.
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