Former MP for Manchester Rusholme
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is aware that Miss Krene Pavlides, a British subject, who was sentenced to death by a military court in Athens on 5th March, 1949, for the alleged distribution of leaflets, and whose sentence has since been commuted to life imprisonment, is now to be transported to a prison on one of the Aegean Islands; and if he will now, in view of Miss...
While thanking my hon. Friend for his statement, which I am quite sure will bring hope to this girl's family, may I ask will he not take into consideration the long time this girl has spent in prison since he first promised to intervene and will he make most energetic representations that she should be deported home at the earliest possible opportunity?
I do not wish to add to the arguments already put forward by my hon. Friends, but I should like to be on record as also protesting against these death sentences. I am not concerned with the legality of the case; I have not read the trial, and I do not know the details. But one thing is perfectly clear, and must be clear to everybody—it is a political persecution. That being so, we in this...
I shall follow the exhortation of my hon. Friend the Member for Westhoughton (Mr. Rhys Davies) and say what I think, although I am pretty sure that my views will not be universally popular in this House. The only compensation I can offer is that I shall not detain the House very long. I followed with great interest the speech of the hon. Member for Lancaster (Mr. Maclean). I do not agree...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the speech made by the British Ambassador in Washington to the National Press Club on 8th June last was made on his instructions and represents the policy of the Government.
Did the psychiatrist have the previous report, when this man's draft to Palestine was cancelled on the grounds that he was a schizophrenic?
The speech of the hon. Member for Monmouth (Mr. P. Thorneycroft) was most interesting, but I cannot help feeling that some of his points would have been more effective if he had put them a little more courteously. I am not seeking popularity when I say that there are certain aspects of the Budget which deserve congratulation, even if there are other aspects which deserve criticism. I...
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the present position with regard to the dispute with Albania over the Corfu Channel incident.
