§ 34. Mr. Platts-Millsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what was the reason for the banning, in the British sector of Berlin, of the Kulturbund zur demokratischen Erneuerung Deutschlands; and whether, in view of the fact that an all-zonal organisation of progressive and democratic intelligentsia is a necessary institution in the rehabilitation of German life and thought, he will reverse the decision to ban this association.
§ Mr. MayhewThe Kulturbund is an organisation of avowed political character. As such it requires, under Allied Order, official recognition by the Allied authorities in Berlin in order to continue its activities there after 1st November, 1947. It has not applied for such recognition, nor has it been agreed by the Allied authorities that it should be recognised. For these reasons it was banned from the British sector of Berlin, and it is not intended to reverse this decision.