I only wish further, in regard to this regulation, to give the House some particulars of the action that has been taken so far under it. What is the point of getting nerves about the minority, I believe the sincere minority, of pacifist opinion in the country? The then Under-Secretary of State for Air quoted verbatim from a document—I think it was from the Air Commander in Iraq. Anything that goes beyond that is an unnecessary attack upon the liberty of the subject and ought not to be tolerated by those who should specially be the guardians of the liberties of the people. No action could be taken under this regulation in such a case except with the consent and authority of my right hon and learned Friend the Attorney-General. MEMBER: "Yes."] Member for Shettleston. Contrary to what the right hon. It is a power no more drastic in relation to the persons to whom it refers than the power in the Defence of the Realm regulations. I beg to move: He was in trouble, too. It is all very well to tell us, as a thousand posters do, that it is upon our cheerfulness that victory will depend. 1900–1919 | Seeing that the document to which the Minister has referred is apparently going to be the key document with regard to this unfortunate matter, surely from the point of view of importance as well as of fact that it is a State document, this House ought to have Mr. Norman Birketts ruling before it. Again, it would be interesting to know exactly what kind of restriction is visualised. He may, but he is not bound to, act on the advice of the advisory committee, and it is a matter of the utmost importance that the advisory committee should have the same facts available to them as induced him to make the original order for detention. We on these benches have for a long time past held the view that this country is threatened with a twofold danger—the danger of Nazi aggression abroad, and the danger of Nazi tendencies at home. general agreement—I think we shall—we shall then introduce the whole body of regulations again, amended as I have just suggested to the House. Therefore I ask you to rule that this is a case where this document must be produced. anticipated by measures which we deliberately took in time of peace, in the Public Order Act. Extraterritorial operation of regulations. I did not wish to misrepresent what I had been told, and the paper that I have before me is nothing more than a departmental note. These are drastic powers, but I would point out that they are powers which the House knew that it was entrusting to the Secretary of State when it passed the Act without a Division. It takes away every liberty of active protest and makes it a criminal offence to make that active protest. There are people who are covered by these regulations who could not be covered in any other way. Gentleman and I would not agree what was desirable and undesirable propaganda. A certain body which is well known to be anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi has given instructions to its members that each is to turn himself into a rumour-monger and a channel for verbal propaganda. The right hon. had anything to do with it, or those with whom I am working, we have always had that distinction in mind. That is a proper attitude for the civil servant to take because, if the Minister gets into trouble, the Minister will go for him. At any such time the discipline of routine is of enormous value. Accordingly, I have risen to make this proposition to the House. We cannot have any such confidence. Along with what he said, I would invite the attention of the House to some other words that he used, namely, "the right to make objections." I do not accept the argument that because something was in the regulations in 1914, therefore it is right to put it in a regulation made 25 years later by another generation. What is said by the Home Secretary in reply to this Debate will also be important. They have been remarkably few. There are important safeguards. mentioned is a matter that all of us must take into account, the vital interests of the country in a very difficult situation. I do not see any reference to the Home Secretary. It is interesting to look back to 1915, when there was a Debate on certain Defence regulations, and to see what was said by the right hon.