WIVES HELD IN SOVIET
AMERICAN REQUESTS FOR RETURN IGNORED WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. The State Department disclosed today that Russia has ignored for over six months a United States request that more than 250 wives of American citizens be permitted to leave the Soviet. Two categories of wives of Americans are involved. About 50 are Soviet women married to American citizens and the others are natives of areas which were incorporated into the Soviet Union or have come under Soviet military occupation since 1939 Those in the latter group, the State Department said, have claims to American citizenship and were “ forcibly removed to the Soviet Union from various countries of Eastern Europe” The department added that the refusal of the Soviet to permit the departure of the wives was “ incomprehensible ” to the United States Government.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26637, 6 December 1947, Page 7
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