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Naval Recruiting Office, Oxford (Political Poster)

Volume 163: debated on Wednesday 25 April 1923

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asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that the naval recruiting office, Cowley Road, Oxford, is being used as a political propaganda station and centre by exhibiting in the windows and on boards posters of Conservative meetings; whether the revenue benefits by this assistance; and whether he will stop this practice or, alternatively, give equal facilities to the Liberal and Labour parties, who have given support to the Royal Navy, in Oxford?

My attention has been called to the exhibition at this recruiting station of a poster advertising an "At Home" on behalf of the local Conservative organisation. The action of the recruiter in permitting the exhibition of this poster was most irregular, and steps are being taken to prevent a repetition of such procedure in future.