The purpose of the Court of Enquiry, the Secretary for War- said, was to ascertain if, and if so how, fu officer in the British Army had committed a breach of trus, Tt was in the public interest that such an enquiry should be held at once becatise it could not serve any purpose that a leakage of secret information should be allowed, Without proper investigation being made, Mr. Winston Churchill and other members drew attention to the need for immediate guidance to Mr, Sandys, who was under military orders to attend the court in the morning, He Appealed to the' Prime Minister io cáncel the order and said that otherwise, he presumed the House and Mr, Speaker would see that privilege protected the Member for Norwood in not complying with the order, The Prime Minister later an-hounced that the Secretary of State for War had agreed to ask the Army Council to suspend the summons Mr. Sandys, as a Territorial Army officer, until the Committee of privileges had reported on the prima facie case of breach of privilege, which the Speaker had ruled been made out.
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