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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prisoners of War – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 11 Chwefror 1947.

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Photo of Mr Richard Stokes Mr Richard Stokes , Ipswich 12:00, 11 Chwefror 1947

As that reply was entirely unsatisfactory, may I ask my right hon. Friend whether this is not in fact a breach of the Geneva Convention, which insists that prisoners of war should be treated in exactly the same way as garrison troops, and if he is aware that no military officer I have met in the zone is satisfied with the present arrangements, which consist of sweating the people in this country, and swindling them over there?