§ 6. Mr. THURTLEasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the British Embassy in Russia and its contents have now been returned to His Majesty's representative in that country; and whether His Majesty's Government now regards this matter as closed?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe former Embassy building in Petrograd was not the property of His Majesty's Government, so that the question of its return does not arise; it was a leasehold, and I think the period of the lease has now expired. The Soviet Government has informed His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Moscow that instructions have been issued for the property of the 406 British Embassy in Leningrad to be handed over, and the necessary arrangements for receiving this property are now under consideration.