§ 26. Mr. BOTTOMLEYasked the Prime Minister whether Holland is a member of the League of Nations; and if so, whether the Government will approach the League with a view to its bringing pressure to bear upon that country to withdraw, in the interests of international justice and future peace, its veto against the surrender of the ex-Kaiser for trial?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative, and to the second in the negative.
§ Mr. BOTTOMLEYIs it not a fact that the primary purpose of the League of Nations is to preserve the peace of the world, and if so will the Government make a representation to the effect that public confidence in the League will be seriously damaged by retaining as one of its members a small country which shields itself behind a purely technical objection and refuses to surrender the arch-criminal of the War?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWI do not think that any representation of the League of 1636 Nations would have more effect than the representations which have already been made by the Allies.
§ Colonel CLAUDE LOWTHERHas the ex-Kaiser actually refused to appear on trial? Has he been invited by the Allies?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWIf we contemplated dealing with that matter it would not be by way of sending invitations.
§ Colonel LOWTHERHas he been ordered to appear?