HUNGARY (BRITISH NOTE)

HC Deb 01 April 1947 vol 435 c298W

Mr. Haire

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the terms of the recent further note to the Soviet authorities in Hungary.

Mr. McNeil

The following is the text of the letter of 19th March from the British Representative on the Allied Control Commission to his Soviet colleagueI immediately communicated your reply to my Government and have now received their instructions to inform you that they adhere to the view expressed in my letter to you of 7th March, that it is desirable that there should be a joint investigation of the facts of the present situation, including those surrounding the case of Mr. Bela Kovacs, and of the threat to the democratic system of Government in Hungary resulting from pressure recently brought to bear on the popularly elected majority in the Hungarian National Assembly.