1. Major Lloydasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the names of the British personnel on the Inter-Allied Commission in Bulgaria; and whether they agreed to the sentences recently announced on Bulgarians as war criminals.
§ The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)The head of the British Military Mission in Bulgaria, which forms the British element of the Allied Control Commission, is Major-General W. H. Oxley. He is assisted by Captain Maund, R.N., and Air Commodore Murray, together with a staff including economic and financial experts. The British Military Mission in Sofia were not consulted by the Bulgarian Government about the sentences recently passed on certain Bulgarians.
§ Mr. EdenI know no reason why they should have been. War criminals are a matter for the Bulgarian Government, If there had been any consultation, it would have been with the Allied Control Commission, and not with the Military Mission.