§ Sir Frederic Bennettasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth 579W Affairs whether the matter of the erection of a memorial to those killed in the Katyn Massacre in 1940 was raised in his recent discussions with Mr. Gromyko; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. HattersleyNo. The Soviet authorities are free to make their views known on this question. We have made it clear to the Soviet and the Polish authorities that it is for the relevant local authority to decide whether or not the proposed memorial should be erected.
§ Sir Frederic Bennettasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make an official protest to the Ambassador of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics against his attempted intervention in a matter solely within British domestic jurisdiction, namely, the erection of a memorial to the Polish victims of the Katyn massacre in 1940.
§ Mr. HattersleyNo.