Word: raids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet Trade delegation later issued a statement to the press, reading, in part: ". . . The way the raid was carried on gives no guarantee that documents and materials which the police might allege to have found were really there before the raid took place...
Explanations. Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks was greeted by ironical Laborite cheers when he entered the House of Commons on the morning after the raid. He said...
...remaining 28 are Metropolitan Boroughs. Over all extends the activity of the Metropolitan Police, a State police controlled by the Home Secretary who is responsible to Parliament. The Metropolitan Police have headquarters at New Scotland Yard; whereas the "City Police" have headquarters near Guildhall. In the case of the raid described above, the procedure was for the Home Secretary to authorize the Metropolitan Police to apply for a search warrant at Guildhall, armed with which they carried out their raid. Other Metropolitan police services are the "King's Household Police," the "Royal Marine Police," the "War Department Constabulary...
...Foreign Office officials would not allow themselves to be quoted, but made the amazing statement that they believed Sir William Joynson-Hicks had ordered the raid without the knowledge of Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. They further hazarded the opinion that Sir William might have been ignorant that diplomatic immunity was being violated, and that a broth of trouble was being concocted for the Foreign Office...
...Office other guarded admissions were made to the effect that the Secretary of State for War, Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, had requested the Home Office to raid Arcos, Ltd. in order to recover certain stolen War Office documents which it was thought might be found there. If this request was made, the raid was technically legal under the Defense of the Realm Act of 1911; but the only possible justification for it in public opinion would be the finding of startlingly incriminating documents of some sort...