BRITISH HUSBANDS UNLIKELY TO SEE RUSSIAN WIVES AGAIN
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(10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Juno 2. Replying to a strong appeal by Lord Vansittart and other peers and bishops, Lord Pakcnham told the House of Lords that the Gov-
ernment must warn the British lv the Russians were detaining in R their wives again were very slencl
usbands of Russian women whom ussia that their chances of seeing
Britain, he said, had made 18 unavailing approaches to the Russians whose attitude in the matter was deplorable by any standards of civilisation or of common humanity. The Government could not support Lord Vansiltart’s suggestion that wives accompanying Russians now in Britain should he expelled. "if large retaliatory measures were adopted we would be running near the brink with Russia and might cause a world-wide conflagration,' 1 he said. The Government would investigate a suggestion that the United Nations should be approached.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22654, 3 June 1948, Page 5
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149BRITISH HUSBANDS UNLIKELY TO SEE RUSSIAN WIVES AGAIN Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22654, 3 June 1948, Page 5
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