§ 51. Mr. KINGasked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the military measures being now taken against Russian forces and the Soviet Government by British and other Allied forces, it is intended to retain in the British Army those Russian subjects who were brought into it by the Anglo-Russian Military Convention; whether any more Russians will be conscripted into the Russian Army, seeing that a sort of war exists with Russia; and whether he will promise that no Russians not voluntarily recruited into the British Army will be sent to fight in any Russian campaign?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. Macpherson)My right hon. Friend has asked me to answer this question. The reply to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. I am afraid it is not possible to answer the second part, nor can I give any pledge of the nature suggested in the last part of my hon. Friend's question.
§ Mr. KINGIn view of developments in Russia, will this matter have the Government's consideration, inasmuch as it causes a certain amount of suspicion to conscript Russians when we are sending our Army against the Russian people?