-25-#669, Eighteenth, from London.             
 
                                                            
 
 
The Prime Minister: Yes, on account of public security. There 
      is a good deal more in it than I have read out. Some of the news 
        may not be any more palatable to the Hon. Member.   
 
                 Mr. Bevan: But we still want it.           
 
                                                            
 
 
The Prime Minister: I am not accepting it at all as an absolute 
      rule that in time of war documents can be quoted without the 
      most careful survey by the government. That is absolutely necessary. 
      In times when blue books were given to the House even in peace 
      frequent excisions were made and indicated by dots by ministers 
            responsible for the safety of the country.      
 
                                                            
 
 
There is another tale told by a British officer Lieut-Colonel 
      H. G. Morrison the King's Royal Rifle Corps who obtained his 
      information by personal cross-questioning of a large number of 
        hostages whom he met at a field dressing station.   
 
                                                            
 
 
The Colonel said: "On Christmas Day"--I will lay 
                            this too--                      
 
                                                            
 
 
"A column of hostages composed of men and women dragged 
      from their homes by the insurgents moved northwards from Athens. 
      They were collected in one suburb and after most had been relieved 
      of their footwear and many of their overcoats they were driven 
      in dead of winter along the mountain roads covered with snow. 
      Every day some died of