HC Deb 03 March 1937 vol 321 c338
12. Mr. A. Henderson

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in the view of his advisers, Germany's recent denunciation of the international status of German rivers affected the Barcelona Pact of 1921 and the agreement of 1929 by which Czechoslovakia was given the right to establish her own zones in the ports of Hamburg and Stettin?

Mr. Eden

I am informed that the German Government have assured the Czechoslovak Government that they consider themselves still to be bound by the stipulations of the Barcelona Convention of 20th April, 1921, and by their undertakings in respect to the Czechoslovak free zones existing in Hamburg and about to be established in Stettin.

Mr. Henderson

Are we to understand that in fact there has been no interference by the German Government with the right of the Government of Czechoslovakia to establish these zones?

Mr. Eden

I understand that is so, but perhaps the hon. Member will put the question down.