§ MR. SERJEANT SIMONasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether, seeing that Non-Christians are excluded from political rights in Roumania by the Constitution framed under the Convention of 1858, to which Great Britain is a party, and that the Jewish subjects of Roumania have under such Constitution been judicially declared to be aliens and have been treated as outlaws, Her Majesty's Government will use its influence in the Council of Europe about to assemble upon the Eastern Question, to secure for the Jews and all Non-Christian subjects and inhabitants of Roumania and of Servia and the other territories which have been, or are about to be, emancipated from Turkish rule, the enjoyment of equal rights without regard to creed or race?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERSir, on behalf of Her Majesty's Government, I have to state in reply to the Question of the hon. and learned Member that the House and the hon. Member may rest assured that the influence of Her Majesty's Government will be used as far as possible to obtain for all the inhabitants of Roumania the enjoyment of equal rights, without regard to their religious convictions.