The British government has no official information on the banning of the “Brown Book of the Hitler Terror” in Palestine, Major G. F. Davies replied yesterday in the House of Commons to a question from Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, Laborite, adding that the government was seeking information from the Palestine High Commissioner. Colonel Wedgwood asked why the “Brown Book” was prohibited while the Hitler autobiography. “Mein Kampf,” was allowed.
On February 5, booksellers in Jerusalem were warned by Geoffrey MacLaren, Assistant District Commissioner of Jerusalem, that the “Brown Book” had been barred under an ordinance forbidding the defamation of foreign princes.
The action of the Palestine government is said to have been due to a protest made by the German Consul General in Jerusalem.
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