§ SIR EDWARD SASSOON (Hythe)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether in view of the reported activity of a Central European Power in connection with the pushing forward of the Bagdad Railway scheme and of the contingency of the balance of 1561 power in Asia Minor being thereby affected, he will consider the desirability of enlightening the public mind by laying some Papers upon the Table of the House.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYThe Bagdad Railway Convention of 1903 has already been published in the Press; the actual progress made by the railway is known, and I do not see what further information could be given to enlighten the public mind.
§ SIR EDWARD SASSOONwas understood to ask for an assurance that this country would not be definitely committed in connection with this railway until the House had had an opportunity of discussing the matter.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYI can give no such general assurance.