Soviet Holds on to Russian Wives of Britishers
LONDON, June 2. Lord Pakenham, Minister of Civil Aviation, told the House of Lords that the Government must warn the British husbands of the Russian women whom the Russians are detaining in Russia, that their chances of seeing their wives again are very slender. He was replying to a strong appeal by Lord Vansittart, former Foreign Office head, and other peers and bishops. . Lord Pakenham said Britain had made 18 unavailing approaches to the Russians, whose attitude in the matter was deplorable by any standards of civilisation or of common humanity. The Government, he added, could not support Lord Vansittart’s suggestion that the wives accompanying Russians now in Britain should be expelled. “If large retaliatory measures were adopted”, he said, “we would be running near the brink with Russia, and might cause a world-wide conflagration”. The Government would investigate the suggestion that the United Nations should be approached.
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Grey River Argus, 4 June 1948, Page 5
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