§ Viscount WOLMERasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he would make any statement as to the views of His Majesty's Government on the proposed fortification of Flushing; and whether the existing treaties give Great Britain any right of intervention in the matter?
§ Sir E. GREYNo statement of the views of His Majesty's Government seems called for upon measures taken by a foreign Government to fortify its own frontier, in so far as these measures are purely defensive. If any international Treaty rights or obligations were incidentally to be affected, the question would be one for friendly discussion between the Powers who were parties to the treaty before any of them could pronounce an opinion.