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QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT. When Mr Adamson (Lab.) asked in the House of Commons whether there was any special scrutiny over imported books and other printed literature, the President of the Board of Trade (Mr Walter Runciman) replied that he did not know what information was required. Miss Wilkinson (Lab.): Can you say why at least two, and sometimes three pages, have been torn from two American magazines of high repute, which had been imported in the last few weeks? What is this thing that the British public is not allowed to see? Mr Runciman: That is not in my department. The questions presumably referred to articles appearing in Time and other publications referring to Mrs Simpson, who accompanied the King on his recent holiday tour, and who has since divorced her husband-
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 311, 30 November 1936, Page 2
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