Detainees

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Germany – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 December 1947.

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Photo of Mr Richard Stokes Mr Richard Stokes , Ipswich 12:00, 1 December 1947

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in view of the fact that under the Geneva Convention persons who are captured as military prisoners of war during the course of hostilities must be retained with the full status of prisoners of war until the signing of peace or until return to the authority of their own Government, why such persons are being continued in detention in Germany by the Control Commission of Germany with whom His Majesty's Government is not at peace.