§ 21. Major Tufton Beamishasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what are the terms of the request received from the Yugoslav Government demanding the extradition from Egypt of a judge and four senior officers who fought with the Royal Yugoslav Army, which was disbanded in 1945; what reply has been sent to the Yugoslav Government; if he will give the names of the five persons concerned; and what evidence he has to indicate that these men should, in fact, be tried as war criminals on charges of collaboration with the Axis.
§ Mr. MayhewThe Yugoslav Legation in Cairo applied earlier this year to His Majesty's Embassy for the surrender of a number of persons in British military camps in Egypt on the grounds that they were Yugoslav war criminals. They were informed that such persons could not be termed war criminals but that applications for the surrender of Yugoslav quislings should be made to His Majesty's Government through the Yugoslav Embassy in London. Large numbers of applications have been received from the Yugoslav Embassy for the surrender of alleged quislings but none of these, so far as the evidence shows, are at present under British control in Egypt. Such reports as my right hon. Friend has received since then indicate that a request has been made by the Yugoslav Legation in Egypt to the Egyptian Government on the lines indicated by the hon. and gallant Member.
§ Mr. SolleyIs my hon. Friend aware that the Yugoslav Embassy in London has made a request to His Majesty's Government for the extradition of Professor Baraga, who was in his absence sentenced to death by the People's Court of Ljubljana for the torture of Yugoslav nationals and collaboration with the 494 enemy, and can he say when His Majesty's Government Will accede to this very reasonable request?
§ Mr. MayhewI would certainly be very willing to look into that, but only with notice.