§ 82. Mr. Aylesasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps are being taken to persuade the Soviet Government to permit the Soviet wives of British ex-Servicemen to come to this country to rejoin their husbands.
§ Mr. MayhewWe have made repeated representations on this subject to the Soviet Government since the end of 1942. As a result of a personal appeal by the Prime Minister to Marshal Stalin at Potsdam in August last year, about a dozen wives were allowed to come to this country. Since then no more have been 169W allowed to leave the Soviet Union, in spite of the fact that our Ambassador in Moscow has pressed the matter constantly. But in August this year the Soviet Ministry for Foreign Affairs undertook to look into the matter again.