HC Deb 12 March 1923 vol 161 c1016
26. Mr. JOHNSTON further

asked if Colonel Sir Edgar Bernard, until recently financial secretary to the Sudan Government, was sent to this country to negotiate with the Treasury additional guarantees to the £6,000,000 already sanctioned for the Makwar dam scheme on the Blue Nile; if the Treasury declined to agree to the proposals made; and if, as a result of the failure of these negotiations, any pressure was brought to bear upon Colonel Bernard to tender his resignation?

Mr. McNEILL

The reply to the first part of the question is in the affirmative, and to the second in the negative. The last part, therefore, does not arise.

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