§ Mr. KELLAWAYasked the Prime Minister, in view of the alarm aroused in the evangelical churches of the United Kingdom by the promulgation of the Ne Temere decree, whether the Government will consider the advisability of using their influence to secure the withdrawal of the decree so far as it affects this kingdom?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe Government would be glad to see the misapprehensions, which the promulgation of the Decree has undoubtedly created in some quarters, authoritatively removed, but it is not a matter in regard to which the machinery of diplomacy is appropriate.
§ Mr. KELLAWAYMay I ask if the Registrar-General has not already approached the Archbishop of Westminster in this connection, and whether representations through that channel cannot be strengthened?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI will consider that.
§ The PRIME MINISTERI think they are notorious.