§ 51. Mr. SNOWDENasked the Prime Minister if his attention has been called to a circular issued by Lord Curzon to Members of Parliament in which he says that the reasons against woman suffrage are as strong to-day as they were before the War, and that it would be in the highest degree undesirable and dangerous that any measure of woman suffrage should pass into law before it has been submitted to the full and considered judgment of the country; and if he has sanctioned the issue of this circular to Members of Parliament expressing views on a controversial political question which the Cabinet will be called upon to decide?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI had not seen this circular until my attention was called to it by the question. It was signed by Lord Curzon, not in his capacity as a Minister of the Crown, but as an officer of an outside association, which did not purport to state the views of His Majesty's Government.