§ 3. Major NEWMANasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has brought or will bring to the notice of British Embassies, Legations, and Consular offices the undesirability of keeping in their employment British subjects of military age; and will he make his recommendation known to the British Embassy at Madrid?
§ Lord R. CECILThere is no question of His Majesty's representatives abroad purposely preventing British subjects in their employ from fulfilling their military obligations, and I may assure the hon. and gallant Member that such an impression would be entirely unjustified. His Majesty's representatives, including His Majesty's Ambassador at Madrid, have done, and are doing, all they can to explain to British subjects abroad their duties in the present crisis and to facilitate to the utmost of their power the return to this country of such British subjects who desire to volunteer for service?