§ Sir A. Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can 1166W hold out any hopes that the Nansen office for refugees at Geneva will be enabled to continue its work for a further period of three years after 31st December, 1938, in view of the increasing difficulty of the unsolved problems which it was set up to deal with, in view especially of the present situation in Syria, Alexandretta, Palestine, and Iraq?
§ Mr. EdenThe Assembly of the League of Nations at its last session instructed the President of the Governing Body of the Nansen Office to draw up for the consideration of the Assembly at its next ordinary Session a plan for the liquidation of the Office by 31st December, 1938. While I see no prospect of a reversal of the Assembly's decision to liquidate the Office, my hon. and gallant Friend will recall that the President of the Governing Body has also been instructed to prepare for the 1938 Assembly recommendations for the allocation of the tasks undertaken by the Office up to the date of its liquidation in the light of the situation existing at that time.