§ MR. DAVITTI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Her Majesty's Ambassador at Washington has made proposals to the Republic of the? United States in favour of an alliance between the two Governments in the event of serious complications arising out of present difficulties in the Far East; whether any similar proposal has been tendered to Her Majesty's Government by or on behalf of President M'Kinley; and whether offers of mediation between the United States and Spain in relation to Cuban troubles have been made from exalted quarters in England to the President of the Republic?
MR. CURZONI hope the hon. Member will allow me to say that the whole of his Questions are of a character to which it would be inexpedient for me to reply.