HC Deb 14 October 1946 vol 427 cc142-3W
Mr. Granville

asked the Secretary of State for War if, in view of the fact that the statistics of Japanese war criminals tried and sentenced to death which he forwarded to the hon. Member for the Eye Division of Suffolk on 18th July, 1946, are incomplete, he will consider setting up a closer liaison between U.S.A., Australia and this country in the form of a central Japanese War Crimes Commission and giving their findings full publicity, as at the Nuremberg trials.

Mr. Bellenger

The arrangements which already exist for the interchange of statistics with the Australian and American authorities meet all our essential requirements and I do not regard it as necessary to press for a central Crimes Commission as suggested. I am looking into the possibility of securing more publicity for the trials.

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