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Ramsay was arrested under the new Defence Regulation 18B used for the internment of suspected Nazi sympathisers. Held in Brixton Prison, Ramsay was the only MP interned during the war. Bizarrely, he did not lose his seat, although his constituency duties were taken over by another MP. He was allowed to table written parliamentary questions from his cell, one of them complaining about the amount of African and Oriental music played on the BBC. He also successfully sued the New York Times over an article alleging that he had passed information stolen by Kent to the Germans. The newspaper could not provide any evidence, so the judge awarded Ramsay a token farthing damages (about a tenth of a penny in today’s money).
Archibald Ramsay was one of the last 18B internees released in September 1944. His return to the House of Commons prompted at least one member to storm out. He did not contest the 1945 general election and, in 1952, published his memoirs, The Nameless War. The book rewrites modern history as a conspiracy by the Jews to achieve world domination and is still widely read in far-right circles. Archibald Ramsay died in 1955.
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