§ 2. Major HUNTasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any agreement has yet been come to with Germany as to the exchange of interned 2650 civilian prisoners; and, if not, will he now consider the advisability of agreeing with Germany to send back the 26,000 interned civilian enemy aliens now in this country in exchange for the 4,000 British and Irish civilian prisoners in Germany and Austria?
§ Lord R. CECILWe are still awaiting the reply of the German Government to our Note of 9th August, the general tenour of which was stated in my reply to the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme on the 10th August. We think that the most pressing and practicable matter for the moment is to secure the repatriation of British and German civilians over forty-five.