HC Deb 09 March 1916 vol 80 c1683
4. Mr. GINNELL

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, when consenting to the use of Mrs. Scott, recently deported, as carrier of a letter written in Hungarian from London to the Finance Commissioner of Hungary making a certain offer if Hungary would secede from Austria and join Russia, he was aware of the other uses previously and concurrently made of Mrs. Scott by Messrs. Rothschild; on what grounds the Foreign Office enabled Mrs. Scott to pass into and out of enemy countries once a month during eighteen months of the War; and whether the American Embassy, through which legitimate communication with those countries was carried on, was kept informed of the uses being made of Mrs. Scott over the same ground?

Lord R. CECIL

I must have time to make inquiries with regard to this matter, and perhaps the hon. Member will repeat his question on Tuesday next.