§ SIR GEORGE WHITEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been called to the announcement that with one exception the whole of the executive staff of the Congo States administration has been attached to the Belgian Colonial Ministry; and, having regard to the Resolution voted by this House in February last, and to the condemnation passed by His Majesty's Government and by all parties in the House upon the Congo States administration, if he will consider the advisability of making some representations to the Belgian Government upon the matter.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYThe Resolution referred to in the Question dealt with the system in force in the Congo. The question of how far a change of personnel is essential to a change of system can hardly be dealt with as an abstract and general question, and in any case I cannot make further representations until a reasonable time has elapsed for the receipt of a reply to the Memorandum already before the Belgian Government.