§ MR. P. A. TAYLORasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If he will state the precise grounds on which Her Majesty's Government declined to recognize the Spanish Republic as established by the vote of the Cortes?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDSir, Her Majesty's Government cannot recognize the present Government in Spain as otherwise than provisional. A Constituent Cortes will, however, be convoked to pronounce upon the form of Government to be adopted. Pending the deliberations and decisions of the Assembly, Her Majesty's Government will simply follow the precedent that was followed in the case of the Governments that provisionally succeeded the ex-Queen Isabella, the late ex-King Louis Philippe, and the ex-Emperor Louis Napoleon. Even had it been decided to precipitate the recognition of the present Government, it does not appear to whom Her Majesty's Minister at Madrid should be properly accredited, or from whom he could receive his credentials.