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RUSSIAN WIVES OF BRITONS REASONS FOR ACTION NOT FORTHCOMING Rec. 8 p.m. LONDON, Mar. 10. When members of all parties appealed in the House of Commons for Government action in the case of the Russian-born wives of British subjects who are being detained in Russia the Minister of State (Mr Hector McNeil) said it was easy to suggest methods of embarrassing the Soviet Government, such as raising the matter through the United Nations, but those who urged retaliatory action should understand that they were running the risk of making the final position of these women worse than at present. tie added that as far as he could see there was no reciprocal action available to the British Government, whose greatest difficulty was that nobody knew why these women were being detained. Nobody could find any justification for it in Soviet law, in international law, or in morality, but he would say to the Soviet Government that this single action had cost them more possible friends than any political activity in which they had indulged.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26719, 13 March 1948, Page 7
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