§ 12. Mr. PALINGasked the Secretary of State, for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government have made any communications to the Greek Government with regard to its relations with neighbouring States; and, if so, whether he can state the nature of such communications?
§ Sir A. CHAMBERLAINYes, Sir. In the course of the many interviews which I have had with representatives of the Greek Government here or at Geneva since I took office, the relations of Greece with neighbouring States have often formed part of the subject of conversation. The most notable occasion was that of the trouble between Greece and Bulgaria in December, 1925, when, on the dispute between the two countries being referred to the League, the Council did me the honour to name me as Rapporteur. That incident was most happily settled by the good sense of the parties aided by the good offices of the League. The preservation of peace being the main pre-occupation of a British Foreign Minister, international relations are necessarily for him a constant source of study and a constant subject for the exchange of views, but, apart from the particular incident to which I have already referred, and which now belongs to history, there has been nothing in any conversations with Greek representatives which I think calls for any statement.