DLA166-0019  Transcription

Private

Dec 13/[19]17

Dear Mrs Laszlo

I return the statement which I have read. It is of no use for me to express any opinion on it, but it appears to me convincing.

I hope that when the advisory committee come to reconsider your husband’s case, they may advise the Home Secretary^[1] in favour of his release. In the meanwhile I think the way to look at the whole matter is that the Home Secretary

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considers that in view of your husband’s correspondence with friends in Hungary, he is bound to treat him as though he were still a Hungarian and in that case no doubt he would be interned.

Yours sincerely

James W. Lowther

Editorial Note:

James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater (1855-1949), British politician. Speaker of the House of Commons between 1905 and 1921; for biographical notes, see [10209].

StdeL

09/09/2023