HC Deb 23 May 1966 vol 729 cc19-20
22 and 23. Mr. Brooks

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1) how far it is the policy of Her Majesty's Government to recognise the incorporation of the former Danzig Free State in Poland; and to what extent that policy allows for revision of the status of that territory at a peace conference with Germany;

(2) how far it is the policy of Her Majesty's Government to renegotiate the Soviet-Polish border across former East Prussia at a peace conference with Germany.

Mr. M. Stewart

Her Majesty's Government's attitude is based on the Potsdam Agreement under which, pending the final determination of Poland's western frontier, the former German territories east of the Oder and Neisse rivers including the free city of Danzig and that part of East Prussia not placed under Soviet administration were placed under Polish administration.

Mr. Brooks

But is my right hon. Friend not aware that the Potsdam Agreement stipulated that it was to be the western frontier of Poland whose final delimitation was to be contingent upon a peace conference with Germany and that neither of the territories mentioned in these Questions lies to the west of Poland?

Mr. Stewart

I think none the less that the answer I have given does set out the Government's view on this matter.