HC Deb 05 November 1947 vol 443 cc220-2W
Mr. Platts-Mills

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state, in each case, the number of notes of protest which have been addressed by His Majesty's Government since the German surrender, either directly to the then Provisional and subsequently to the recognised Governments of Poland, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Roumania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Albania, or indirectly through the chairman of the appropriate Allied Control Commission.

Mr. Mayhew

I regret that the search into the archives of several missions dating back over two years, which would be needed to establish how many of the numerous communications to these Governments could be classed as notes of protest, would involve an unjustifiable expenditure of labour.