Lonsdale and Blake

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 June 1964.

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Photo of Mr Francis Bowles Mr Francis Bowles , Nuneaton 12:00, 4 June 1964

Without in any way referring to the trial or the sentence, may I ask the right hon. Gentleman what were the principles on which the Government acted in the Lonsdale case? He appeared to us to be the ringleader of the whole matter. Is it fair to leave the other people in prison? Why is it that Lonsdale alone of the four or so was allowed to go back to his own country?