§ MR. F. S. STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether a communication has been received at the Foreign Office from the Cretan Distress Fund Committee expressing their desire that the administration of relief should be on an international basis; and whether steps have been taken with a view to the co-operation of the Consuls of other Powers in the distribution of the funds?
MR. CURZONA communication of the character described was received at the Foreign Office and was referred to Her Majesty's Consul in Crete, who reported that the establishment of a local international Relief Committee was impracticable. It would, however, have been open to any of the Consuls of the 1638 other Powers—to whom indeed the offer was made—to accompany Mr. Biliotti in the journey that he proposed to make for the distribution of the relief funds.