§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will now state when the Government will publish an authentic presentation of the secret treaty between Soviet Russia and the Third Reich in 1939.
§ Mr. MayhewThe documents of the German Foreign Office captured during the last phase of the war are in joint Anglo-American custody at the Enemy Documents Unit in Berlin. A joint team of specialists has been engaged for over a year in selecting the more important material. This has then been microfilmed and copies of the films have been sent both to the State Department and the Foreign Office. As a result of conversations between the two Governments, agreement was reached in June, 1946, to publish a series of volumes of selected documents from the great mass of captured material. Both Governments agreed that the selection of the documents for publication should be entrusted to independent historians of high reputation who will be guided in their task of preparing the material for publication solely by considerations of scholarship. The United States Government have appointed as their Editor-in-Chief Professor Raymond Sontag, of the University of California, and His Majesty's Government have secured the services of Mr. John W. Wheeler-Bennett, whose knowledge of the period concerned is unrivalled. The editors have already met in London and will shortly resume contact in Berlin, where Assistant Editors of both countries are already at work.