§ 4. Colonel WEDGWOODasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign affairs if he can state the approximate number of persons suspected of socialism and communism now interned or imprisoned in Hungary; whether any visits have been paid by Allied officials to the internment camps; and whether reports on the camp conditions have been received?
§ Sir H. GREENWOODThe answer to all parts of this question is in the negative.
§ Colonel WEDGWOODMay I ask whether any steps are being taken by H.M. Government to mitigate the White Terror in Hungary, and whether the hon. Gentleman can find out whether there are not 40,000 people interned there?
§ Mr. SPEAKERThe hon. and gallant Member should put that question down.
§ Colonel WEDGWOODIt is oh the Paper, Sir.
§ Mr. SPEAKERThen the hon. and gallant Member has got an answer.
§ 6. Mr. ROBERT RICHARDSONasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to a Memorandum sent by four leading Hungarian liberals to Sir George Clerk in which the responsibility for the terrorist régime of the present Hungarian Government is placed on the British representatives in Hungary; and whether any action is being taken to put a stop to the excesses of the present Hungarian Government and its supporters?
§ Sir H. GREENWOODThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. It is not clear to what excesses the hon. Member is referring in the second part.
§ Colonel WEDGWOODMay I ask whether steps will be taken by H.M. Government to inquire into these excesses in Hungary and to lay on the table of this House some sort of report as to what is going on in that country under our sanction and approval?
§ Sir H. GREENWOODNo excesses, in Hungary or anywhere else, are carried on with the approval of H.M. Government. In answer to the other part of the question, I am sorry I cannot add to what I have already stated.
§ Colonel WEDGWOODIs it not possible for H.M. Government to communicate with our representatives in Hungary asking them to make a report on these concentration camps, where these people are being slowly done to death by the new Hungarian Government?
§ Sir H. GREENWOODIn answer to these supplementary questions, may I 226 point out that it is not clear to what excesses the hon. Member and hon. Members refer, and I must say, on behalf of the Foreign Office, that it does not help the Government to allege excesses against the Hungarian or any other Government.