AUSTRIA (RUSSIAN WAR BOOTY)

HC Deb 21 May 1947 vol 437 cc253-4W

Mr. Vane

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on what grounds and by whose authority electrical and other plant was dismantled and removed from the Alpine Montangesellshaft works at Donawitz, in the British zone of Austria, in the early months of the Allied occupation.

Mr. Mayhew

This plant was removed by the Russian authorities as war booty before the British occupation of Styria.