Oral Answers to Questions — League of Nations. – in the House of Commons at on 18 February 1935.
Mr David Grenfell
, Gower
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps are being taken by the League of Nations to continue the work in China begun there by its technical agent?
Mr John Simon
, Spen Valley
Assistance continues to be rendered to the Chinese authorities by various technical organs of the League, such as the Communications and Transit Organisation, the Health Organisation and the Committee of Intellectual Co-operation. At its last meeting the Council Committee on technical co-operation between the League of Nations and China, while reaching the conclusion that it did not appear to be essential to appoint a technical agent for the time being, invited the Secretary-General of the League temporarily to dispatch to China the director of one of the competent sections of the Secretariat with a view to ensuring the continuance and development of the work begun by the former technical agent. I understand that the Director of the Communications and Transit Organisation of the League Secretariat has been selected for this mission.
Mr Harold Balfour
, Isle of Thanet
In view of the increased activity of the League in China, will the Bureau of the League ask China to pay her subscription?
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
