The British Home Secretary, W. C. Bridgeman, resigned on account of the adverse decision of Britain's Law Lords on the O'Brien deportation case. They declared that the Government could not appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeals.
Arthur O'Brien, Irish republican, was deported by order of the Home Secretary. His friends in London discovered that under an old law no prisoner could be deported out of England. A writ of habeas corpus was upheld by the Court of Appeals.
The Government, expecting defeat, is now trying to pass an indemnity bill in...
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