“…I happen to be Vice-Chairman of the Basque Children's Committee and appreciate the interest of your Council in the children but really, you know, it would be better to enquire into a matter which is reported to you rather than to accept an ex-parte statement with all its implications. The question of repatriation is one of extreme difficulty and it may have been that on the occasion when Mrs. …”

“…I happen to be Vice-Chairman of the Basque Children's Committee and appreciate the interest of your Council in the children but really, you know, it would be better to enquire into a matter which is reported to you rather than to accept an ex-parte statement with all its implications. The question of repatriation is one of extreme difficulty and it may have been that on the occasion when Mrs. …”