53. Captain BENNasked the Prime Minister what is the precise nature of the undertaking given by the Government to recognise and support the independence of the Arabs in Iraq, Transjordania, and the Arab States of the Arabian Peninsula?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI understand the question to refer to the Treaty under negotiation with the Hedjaz Government. As was stated on the 25th June by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, negotiations on this subject are still in progress, and it is not possible to say what precise form the Treaty, if concluded, may ultimately take.