§ 7. Mr. McNEILLasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Treaty of 1863, which established the Danish dynasty, to which the present King of Greece belongs, upon the Greek throne, contains an Article asserting that, under the guarantee of Great Britain, France, and Russia, Greece forms a constitutional State, and that this Article was framed in consequence of the events of 1862, when King Otto, a German Prince, was deposed from the Greek throne for having overridden the Constitution and was removed on board a British 1552 ship, a provisional Government being set up in Greece supported by an army of national defence; and whether he will instruct the British Minister at Athens to call the attention of King Constantine to this precedent?
§ Lord R. CECILYes, Sir, I am aware of the Article to which my hon. Friend refers. If King Constantine has forgotten it, no doubt my hon. Friend's question will remind him of it.
§ Mr. LYNCHIs it not a fact that the anomalies of this Greek situation really conceal something which the Foreign Office dares not avow to this House?
§ Lord R. CECILNo, Sir; I am not only not aware of it, but I know it to be utterly untrue.