§ Major Wilkesasked the Secretary of State for War how many Spanish Republican prisoners are held in internment camps in this country; and what steps he proposes to take for their release and resettlement in a manner befitting the great services they have rendered to the United Nations.
§ Mr. BellengerThere are 222 Spanish Republicans held in the United Kingdom as prisoners of war. They had taken refuge in France and were conscripted by the Germans into the Todt Organisation, in which they were serving at the time of their capture by our Forces. The question of their return to France, is at present under discussion between His Majesty's Government and the French Government.