§ Mr. T. Reidasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the Soviet Government are still objecting to a visit by the Anglo-American Committee to Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria; and if they have given any reason for such objections.
Mr. Noel-BakerThe Soviet authorities have not granted permission to the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry to visit Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania, and the Committee are due to leave Vienna for Cairo today. I am told by the Soviet Government that it is unnecessary for the Committee to visit these three countries, because in each case the Armistice terms forbid any racial discrimination, and the observance of this rule is, they say, closely watched by the Allied Commissions of Control.