Mr Arthur Ponsonby: (by Private Notice) asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there has been any reconsideration of the disciplinary action taken with regard to Mr. O'Malley, who was called upon to resign from the Foreign Service?
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: 74. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether, in the case of Mr. W. Shakespeare, of Princess Street, Sheffield, who has claimed compensation for the death of his wife and the destruction of his house in an air raid in September, 1916, he will say whether this claim has yet been examined, and for what reason no compensation has yet, been received?
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: The House owes a debt of gratitude to the hon. Member who introduced this Motion, and the unanimity shown in all parts of the House in supporting it is something that will be noted even by the Press themselves. I hesitated in getting up, because I hoped someone on the Government Bench would have said a word to show that the Government themselves realise that this is a great question which...
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: Is there not a permanent official of the Office of Works attached at the Embassy of Washington, who superintends the erection of buildings?
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: 2. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under which of the reservations which accompanied the declaration of the independence of Egypt in 1922 His Majesty's Government claim the right to take steps to nullify the results of probable legislation by the Egyptian Parliament, as stated in the warning Note presented by Lord Lloyd to the Egyptian Government?
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: 13. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government has received an invitation to a conference of the capitulatory Powers to be held at Cairo to consider the question of capitulatory rights; if so, what is the proposed date of the conference; and whom do His Majesty's Government propose to send as delegates?
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: 6. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any report to make to this House as to the result of his conversation with M. Litvinoff at Geneva?
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: Is there any hope of these conversations being resumed?
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: 66. asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the price of the OFFICIAL REPORT of Parliamentary Debates can be reduced in the coming year to its original price of 3d.?
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: May I ask whether the hon. Member is aware that there is likely to be a considerable increase in the circulation of the OFFICIAL REPORT when a Labour Government comes into office?
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: Can the hon. Gentleman tell us when the treaty with the United States comes up for revision?
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: 15. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Secretary-General of the League of Nations has forwarded to him, in accordance with the Council's decision, the resolution adopted by the Eighth Assembly of the League on 26th September, urging the use of pacific means for the settlement of disputes of every description; and whether, as a practical way of showing His Majesty's...
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: 12. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in view of the fact that the British delegation at the eighth Assembly of the League of Nations voted for the Polish resolution ordering that war of aggression is an international crime, that all wars of aggression are and shall always be prohibited, and that States members of the League are under an obligation to conform to these...
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: 14. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the inconvenience and obstruction to international intercourse caused by a rupture of diplomatic relations and the consequent absence from their posts of diplomatic representatives, His Majesty's Government will abandon this method of expressing disapproval of the action of a foreign Government and permit the resumption...
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: In a case where there are strained relations between the countries and grave matters in dispute, is it not all the more necessary to have diplomatic missions to the respective Governments?
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: 8. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he proposes to publish a report of the recent session of the League of Nations Council as a White Paper?
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: 7. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any negotiations are proceeding with the Egyptian Government as to the four reserved points; and, if so, when he will be able to make any statement to this House on the subject?
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: Can the right hon. Gentleman say how that total compares with the total of the German garrison in the same locality before the War?
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: I beg to move, to reduce the Vote by £100. I desire to make a general survey of the present condition of international affairs. In the ordinary course, this Debate would have been initiated by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, but, in the circumstances of which the Committee is aware, my right hon. Friend is unable to attend as regularly in this House as he would like. It...
Mr Arthur Ponsonby: I am coming to that. This new character which the League is taking on is causing grave concern to its best friends. We find a grouping and a manœuvring between the various nations and States of Europe and the world. Instead of this unified action of the League, we are going back to the sectional and particular action. The Treaty of Locarno was concluded in October, 1925. I have got here—I...