Debate on the Address

Part of Orders of the Day — King's Speech – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 October 1948.

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Photo of Mr William Gallacher Mr William Gallacher , Fife Western 12:00, 27 October 1948

Is the hon. Member aware that in the "Catholic Herald" up in Glasgow three months ago, one of the writers, with whom I exchanged courtesies about a pamphlet, "Catholics and Communism," said that on good authority there were from 10 to 20 million in slave camps in Russia. I remarked at the time that the margin was a fairly large one for an authority. Could the hon. Member tell me how it is that in the past three months the number has been reduced by five million?