§ 7. Dr. SALTER (for Mr. PONSONBY)asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in accordance with the undertakings given at Locarno or shortly after, and with a view to clearing away outstanding points of difference before the meeting of the League of Nations Assembly in September, His Majesty's Government intend to propose to the 2082 other occupying States any steps for the reduction of the armies of occupation. In the Rhineland to the number which was maintained there by Germany before the War?
§ Sir A. CHAMBERLAINThe hon. Gentleman who put the question on the Order Paper is, I think, under a misapprehension. No undertaking was ever given to the German Government that the troops of occupation in the Rhineland would be reduced to the number maintained there by Germany before the War. But His Majesty's Government naturally stand by the note of the Ambassadors' Conference of the 14th November last, the text of which has already been laid before Parliament in Command Paper 2527.