HC Deb 29 May 1922 vol 154 cc1686-7
82. Sir H. BRITTAIN

asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what other countries, in addition to Great Britain, are now carrying out the suggestions put forward at the Genoa Conference for the simplification of the visa for the benefit of travellers?

Mr. HARMSWORTH

A number of European countries have adopted parts of the Resolutions of the Paris Conference of October, 1920, which formed the basis of the suggestions put forward at the Genoa Conference; and at a Conference held at Gratz in January last an agreement was signed between Italy, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and Czecho-Slovakia accepting these Resolutions. So far, however, as His Majesty's Government are aware, the only foreign Governments at present giving effect to the Resolutions in their entirety are those of Austria and Belgium.