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Oral Answers to Questions — Great Britain, Russia and Iran.

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 10 December 1941.

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Photo of Sir Geoffrey Mander Sir Geoffrey Mander , Wolverhampton East

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the present position with regard to the negotiations for an Anglo-Russian-Persian Treaty of Alliance; whether he is aware that telegrams are still passing unchecked between Berlin and Teheran; that obstruction is being met with by journalists in despatching news to America; and what action he is taking in the matter?

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