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Oral Answers to Questions — Yugoslavia (General Pirzio-Birolli)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 March 1947.

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Photo of Major Ernest Bramall Major Ernest Bramall , Bexley 12:00, 24 March 1947

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether General Pirzio-Birolli, the former Italian governor of Dalmatia, is included in the list of persons prepared by U.N.O. War Crimes Commission, against whom a prima facie case has been made out; when the Yugoslav Government applied to the Allied Control Commission for Italy for him to be handed over for trial; whether he was handed over; and where he is today.

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