Oral Answers to Questions — Germany – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 February 1947.
Vice-Admiral Taylor:
asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether the resolution of U.N.O. whereby refugees who did not wish to return to their countries would not come under the control of the representatives of Governments whose authority they challenged, is still being carried out in the British zone of Germany.
Mr John Hynd
, Sheffield, Attercliffe
Yes, Sir.
Vice-Admiral Taylor:
Is the Minister not aware that in February this year the United Nations General Assembly rejected a suggestion that all displaced persons, irrespective of their wishes concerning repatriation, should be controlled by the representatives of the State from which they come?
Mr John Hynd
, Sheffield, Attercliffe
The fact that the United Nations, or any other body, rejected a proposition, does not mean that they adopted a contrary proposition.
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