HC Deb 14 October 1968 vol 770 c22W
Mr. Biggs-Davison

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on what day and at what time he first received notification of the invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Mr. Motley

Her Majesty's Government first learned of the invasion of Czechoslovakia at 1.30 a.m. on the 21st of August when my right hon. and noble Friend the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, acting on my right hon. Friend's behalf, received the Soviet Ambassador. My right hon. Friend was personally notified of the invasion at 3.20 a.m. on the same day.