Mr. J. R. Clynes, the Home Secre tary, announced that the Government had decided not to allow Trotsky, the well-known Soviet leader, to visit England. He stated that the Government had carefully considered all the circumstances before deciding to ban him.
Colonel J. C. Wedgwood, Labour MP, for Neweastle-under-Lyme, and Mr, P. A. Harris, Labour MP. for Bethnal Green (South-West), raised the question of the right of asylum, but the Speaker intervened, declaring that the original question and answer were quite definite and nothing else could be said—Reuter,
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