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A Death in Peking: Who Really Killed Pamela Werner

Sir Anthony Eden forced to apologise to Pamela's father

8/6/2018

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Sir Anthony Eden
Future prime minister, Sir Anthony Eden, was UK Foreign Secretary when Pamela was murdered in 1937.
Much to his embarrassment, He was forced to write a letter of apology to her father after he mistakenly 'misled the house' when he informed Parliament that no British subjects had been killed in China that year. 
Pamela's father was furious and wrote from Peking saying so ... 
E.T.C. Werner: "This statement is erroneous. On the night of January 7, 1937, my only child, Pamela, was murdered in a most brutal and dastardly manner" and added, "as it is, the murderers are still at large".
The encounter is covered in full in
A Death in Peking

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E.T.C. Werner in 1937
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