§ 2. Mr. KINGasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, having regard to the fact that all information affecting foreign policy was open to President Wilson, he has communicated to President Wilson the treaties made by the Allies with Italy and Roumania, respectively, on their entry into the War?
§ Lord R. CECILThe reply is in the affirmative.
§ Mr. KINGHas any communication on this matter or comments of President Wilson been received which might be made public?
§ Lord R. CECILI must have notice of that; but I think not, so far as I remember.
§ 7. Mr. KINGasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware of the civil and political injustices under which Jews have hitherto suffered in Roumania and the efforts of the late Marquess of Salisbury to remove their injustices; whether the treaty of peace recently signed by Roumania guarantees full and equal rights to Jews; and, if so, whether he will give an assurance that this country has no intention of setting this article aside?
§ Lord R. CECILIf the hon. Member will read these Treaty stipulations with care, he will observe that the enfranchisement obtained for the Jews is of a most limited and conditional nature, and that the Clauses have in fact been framed solely in order to give Germany an additional pretext for interfering in the internal affairs of Roumania. His Majesty's Government have the fullest sympathy with the cause of Jewish enfranchisement in Roumania and else- 942 where, but it is to the full programme of liberation which the Roumanian Government has themselves adopted prior to this Treaty, and not to this restricted scheme, that His Majesty's Government will adhere.
§ 8. Mr. KINGasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Treaty of 26th April, 1915, concluded with Italy on Italy's entry into the War has been modified, superseded, or enlarged by any subsequent treaty, agreement, or understanding to which this country is a party; if so, what is the date; and what are the objects of such rearrangement of the terms and conditions of the original treaty?
§ Lord R. CECILThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. The rest of the question does not, therefore, arise.