HC Deb 02 July 1923 vol 166 c30
54. Mr. MOREL

asked the Prime Minister whether he has now obtained any information as to the authenticity of the document published last Sunday week purporting to be a report of the French Commissioner on the Rhineland High Commission; and whether the attitude of His Majesty's Government remains one of opposition to the policy of separating the Rhineland from the German Reich?

The PRIME MINISTER

I have nothing to add to the reply on this subject which I gave to the hon. Member for Aberavon (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald) on 25th June.

Mr. MOREL

Is the Prime Minister aware that the author of this Report is the Marquis de Lillers, delegate at Wiesbaden since 1921 of the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission, upon which Commission this country is represented?

The PRIME MINISTER

I cannot pursue all the statements that are made in the Press on these subjects. I have no official knowledge of that at all, and I do not think any further discussion of that matter at this moment would be of the slightest use.