Mr Cecil Harmsworth: His Majesty's Government have intervened with the greatest usefulness in regard to this matter.
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: I do not understand what the hon. Member's reference to Paris means.
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: According to the latest figures available, 520 members of the Inter-Allied Commission are in Upper Silesia at present, of whom 294 are French, 85 Italian, and 141 British.
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: I do not think it desirable to make a further statement on the subject at this moment.
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: My hon. and gallant Friend will have heard the reply given by the Prime Minister on that subject.
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: Of course I can add nothing to what the Prime Minister said.
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: Perhaps the hon. Member would give me notice of a specific question of that kind?
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: A proclamation indicating the intention of the United States Government gradually to withdraw from Santo Domingo was published in December last. I have no later official information an the subject, nor as to the intentions of the United States Government as regards the withdrawal of their troops from Hayti.
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: With my hon. and gallant Friend's permission, I will circulate the answer in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: The French Chamber has now ratified the Treaty, which may therefore be expected to come into force at an early date.
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: Russian refugees in camps in Cyprus number 590, and they are composed entirely of refugees who left South Russia after General Denikin's defeat. The cost of maintaining these camps is £2,800 per month. There are an additional 72 refugees now maintaining themselves outside the camps. I regret that it is impossible to give any definite date by which the camps will be closed, but I can assure...
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: That would be a very harsh method.
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: I am not quite clear why the hon. and gallant Member (Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy) has raised this question this evening. It is, as the House is aware, an exceedingly delicate question. I do not want, in replying on Foreign Office questions, to insist top often that the occasion is not the most appropriate one for discussing a question of policy, but undoubtedly the situation as between the...
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: Yes, but the situation has not always been what it is at present. Such a diversity of opinion has been expressed among the three hon. Gentlemen who have addressed the House that they really have left but little to reply to. It was refreshing to find my two hon. and gallant Friends, for the moment at least, in dissension upon a subject of foreign policy, while the hon. Member (Mr. A. Williams)...
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: My hon. and gallant Friend knows enough about the Foreign Office to be able to assure himself that this subject has engaged the most earnest, and anxious attention of the Department which I have the honour to represent, and of the Government as a whole, for a long time past. It is not necessary for me to remind the House why that should be so. It must be clear to every hon. Member that the...
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: My hon. Friend behind me gives the only possible answer, namely, that it does not exist.
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: I am afraid that that saying has not reached me. I do not know whether my hon. and gallant Friend was in the House this afternoon when the Lord Privy Seal replied to certain very searching and direct questions on this very point.
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: I thought so. That makes it all the more surprising to me that my hon. and gallant Friend has raised this question this evening, and that he should suggest, after the statement of the Lord Privy Seal, that there has been any kind of covert support to one side or the other.
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: According to my recollection, the answer given by my right hon. Friend—which I followed, as in duty bound, with the very greatest care—was a most definite statement that His Majesty's Government had observed neutrality throughout these proceedings, which excludes the possibility of the sort of covert assistance to which my hon. and gallant Friend refers; and, moreover, that the Government...
Mr Cecil Harmsworth: The late Persian Government informed His Majesty's Minister at Teheran on 3rd May that the Persian Transport Company's road concession had been cancelled, owing to the company's failure to comply with its terms and to the expiration of the agreement. The company, however, deny these allegations and the matter is still under discussion. No other British concessions have been cancelled by the...