§ 14. Mr. JOWETTasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he is willing, inasmuch as the future of Great Britain has become identified with the interests of Russia and France, to request the Russian and French Governments to communicate to him the terms of the Franco-Russian Alliance, so that the British people may know the nature of the policy and liabilities to which they have been committed?
Mr. PRIMROSEThe policy and liabilities to which His Majesty's Government are committed are those of the Alliance made with France and Russia on the 5th of September, 1914, which has been published. That is sufficient for the purposes of the War. Whether further obligations, as the hon. Member apparently suggests, should be undertaken is a point to be considered when the pressure of war is relaxed and gives time for that and other matters. The answer to the question is therefore in the negative.