§ 3. Mr. KINGasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can make any statement regarding the recent visit of Viscount Haldane to Berlin?
§ Sir E. GREYI much regret that I cannot make any statement such as the hon. Member desires because Lord Haldane did not go to Berlin at all in the Recess. It is true that following a practice of so many years' standing as to have acquired the force of habit, he spent an annual holiday in Germany last month, but he did not, while there, have any conversation, correspondence or communication with any political personage. It was, in fact, a real holiday, free from any taint of politics, though I am credibly informed that he went with a friend who by the cut of his beard was identified in Germany as being either the Prime Minister or myself.