13. Mr. EDMUND HARVEYasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Report of the Commission, presided over by M. Léon Bourgeois, on the question of a Leage of Nations, will fee issued as a White Paper, or otherwise made accessible to the British public; 904 and whether the Government are prepared to publish any other memoranda on the subject for the guidance of public opinion?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Balfour)The Report of the Commission presided over by Monsieur Léon Bourgeois is a confidential document of the French Government, and the question of its publication in any form must therefore be left to the French Government. At present I do rot think it would be possible to publish any memoranda as suggested without hampering the discussions now going on between ourselves and our Allies.