The House of Commons adopted unanimously today the report of the special Parliamentary Committee which investigated the problem of the application of the Official Secrets Act to members of Parliament.
The Prime Minister, Mr: Neville Chamberlain recalled the Sandys case in which the Conservative M.P. was alleged to have been threatened with imprisonment under the provisions of the Act. He said that case had arisen chiefly over a misunderstanding.
"The House will now await the conclusions of the Committee on what will be a much more important matter, namely the question of the application of the Oficial Secrets Act to members of the House discharging their Parliamentary duties" the Premier continued.
"If that is done, the Committee is able to put before us some programme of general guidance for our conduct in the future. Then we may hope that it will be unlikely that we shall ever see a recurrence of such incidents as the one Which came before us last summer.—Havas, Further Shootings Stir Bucharest is Bucharest, Dec. 5, Two Rumanian youths today fired four shots at Colonel Cristescu, President of the Military Tribunal, when he was leaving the Court building in Cernauti., It was believed here that the youths were connected with the Iron Guard movement and were at-Captain Cornelius Codes pud tempting retaliation for dei
thirteen Iron Guard companions, Colonel Cristescu was wounded, but is expected to recover. One ase sail ant, a college student,- Leonid Lututovici was captured, the other escaping.—United Press.
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