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1945-1978, 1987-1988: Displaced Persons. Mainly concerns Russians, Poles and Yugoslavs at the end of the Second World War. Particularly deals with the alleged forcible repatriation of Soviet Nationals from Austria and Germany from 1945

Includes photocopies from Foreign Office files, 1947, and of the reports by (a) Major Tufton Beamish MP, and Mr C R Hobson MP, and (b) Frank Beswick MP, as members of a Parliamentary Special Committee of Investigation into the Implementation of H M Government's Policy in Connection with Displaced Persons in the British Zones of Austria and Germany in 1947 (they visited the camps). Some related correspondence, particularly concerned with Major Beamish's intention to write two articles for the Daily Telegraph in 1947 - including the detailed comments of Sir George Rudd, Foreign Office, on the articles

Also some later correspondence and papers about the events of 1945-1947, particularly following books about the Soviet repatriation written by Lord Bethell and Count Nicolai Tolstoy after the opening of Government files to inspection, 1976-1978. Many newspaper cuttings, with copy extracts from Hansard, 1945-1947. A few cuttings, etc, about a revival of the controversy in 1987-1988

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