Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Aliens – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 December 1947.
Mr Thomas Skeffington-Lodge
, Bedford
12:00,
4 December 1947
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, despite their unauthorised entry into this country, and taking into account their ill-treatment at the hands of the Poles, he will allow Erich Schillinzki and Gustav Schrinzog, both of Danzig, to stay in this country as land workers or miners, instead of ordering their deportation to certain persecution.
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