§ 7. Mr. LYNCHasked whether Sir George Buchanan is returning from Petrograd; and, if so, whether in any future appointment the area of selection will be so greatly widened that such posts may become available to capable and distinguished men of the world whose ideas have not become limited by the official groove: and whose minds are alive to the movements of a new time?
Mr. BALFOURSir G. Buchanan is only home on leave. As regards the second part of the question, I will give the hon. Gentleman the benefit of the doubt, and assume that he makes no reflection on this most able and distinguished public servant. On the subject of appointments to ambassadorial posts I am giving an answer to the hon. Gentleman in connection with Question No:8.