Editing Defence Regulation 18B (section)

==18B in force==
The initial arrests were few and confined to those believed to be hard-core Nazis. By 14 September 1939 there were only 14 people interned under 18B. Several of these were German or Austrian by birth but had been naturalised as British subjects. The total would have been higher if [[William Joyce]] had not been tipped off by an [[MI5]] officer, who appears to have been [[Maxwell Knight]], about his impending internment, allowing him to flee to Germany.<ref>{{cite news|last=Feigel|first=Lara |url=https://www.ft.com/content/768aff8e-2a80-11e7-bc4b-5528796fe35c |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/768aff8e-2a80-11e7-bc4b-5528796fe35c |archive-date=2022-12-10 |url-access=subscription|title=The eccentric British spy chief who inspired le Carré and Fleming|work=Financial Times|date=28 April 2017|access-date=29 August 2018}}</ref>

In the Commons a group of [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] and [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] MPs attempted to have Code B annulled on 31 October 1939, but were persuaded to withdraw their motion in favour of consultation that produced slightly amended wording.