HC Deb 01 May 1918 vol 105 cc1526-7
7. Mr. LEES-SMITH

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will say whether the United States and France have now Ambassadors in Russia

The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Balfour)

The answer is in the affirmative, but they are not accredited to any Russian Government.

Mr. LEES-SMITH

Will the right hon. Gentleman say why the British Government have not someone there of equal dignity to those two foreign representatives?

Mr. BALFOUR

I have said these Ambassadors are not accredited. They are not acting as Ambassadors.

47. Mr. KING

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that Mr. Konstantine Dmitrivitch Nabokoff, who was dismissed from his post in London by the Russian Government, is now employed by the so-called Russian Government Committee, at India House, Kingsway; whether Mr. Nabokoff has at any time during the past six months asked for or received any financial assistance from the British Government, either for himself or for the Russian Government Committee; and whether he will consult the present Russian Government as to whether Mr. Nabokoff should be returned to Russia or conscripted with other Russians into the British Army?

Mr. BALFOUR

My right hon. Friend has asked me to answer this question. The answer to the first and third parts of the question is in the negative; to the second part in the affirmative.

Mr. KING

Can we be told how much money has been advanced by the Government to representatives of the Russian Czarist Government—not the present Government?

Mr. BALFOUR

That is a question of which I shall require notice.