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Whaling Fleet (Decision)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Germany – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14 July 1947.

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Photo of Mr Thomas Skeffington-Lodge Mr Thomas Skeffington-Lodge , Bedford 12:00, 14 July 1947

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on what grounds the application of the Bizonal Economic Office at Minden for permission to prepare a whaling fleet has been turned down; and whether, in the light of the acute food shortage in Germany, he will reconsider this decision with the object of reversing it.

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