HC Deb 13 July 1916 vol 84 c511
8. Major HUNT

asked the Under-Secre-for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the fact Sir Francis Oppenheimer, our Commercial Attaché at The Hague, is the son of a German, and was born and educated at Frankfort, in Germany, and that his mother lives in Germany, and that the British Minister at The Hague refers everything connected with British trade in Holland to him, he can see his way to appointing a British-born and British-bred subject in his place during the War?

Lord R. CECIL

I would refer the hon. Member to the reply to a similar question asked by the hon. Member for the St. Augustine's Division yesterday, but I must not be taken to admit the accuracy of the statement contained in the hon. Member's question.

Mr. HUNT

Does the right hon. Gentleman say that the question is not correct?

Lord R. CECIL

Some of the statements in the question are not correct.