§ Mr. JAMES PARKER (on behalf of Mr. William Thorne)asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs if his attention had been called to a discussion in the German Reichstag on 15th March, when a unanimous resolution was passed that a sum should be inserted in the next Estimates in support of the movement for international arbitration; and if he was prepared to recommend to the Government that a grant be made to further the international arbitration movement?
Mr. McKINNON WOODNo report has yet reached me of the Resolution said to have been passed in the Reichstag on the 15th instant. As regards the second part of the question, the principle of international arbitration is viewed with sympathy by His Majesty's Government, but I cannot promise a Government grant such as is suggested.