§ 5. Mr. BRIANTasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if the Government recognise the authority of Soviet Russia to extend to Georgia; and, if so, seeing that Russia, Great Britain and many other States recognised the independence of Georgia in 1920, what grounds are there for withdrawing such recognition?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe Republic of Georgia is recognised to be a constituent part of the Trans-Caucasian Federative Republic which is itself a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Official recognition of a government which no longer exists de facto naturally lapses.