§ 3. Mr. TREVELYANasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether 1146 the breakdown of the negotiations for a treaty of alliance with Egypt has in any way altered the attitude of His Majesty's Government towards the two conferences proposed by His Majesty the King of Egypt for the modification of the capitulatory regime?
§ Sir A. CHAMBERLAINThe only conference which has yet been proposed is that referred to in my answer to the hon. Member for Brightside (Mr. Ponsonby) on the 7th of March last. It was suggested by the Egyptian Government that the conference in question should meet in the early part of February, but, so far as I know, they have not yet named any actual date. Under the proposed Treaty of Alliance with Egypt, His Majesty's Government would have been ready to support a wide measure of capitulatory reform. As the Egyptian Government have rejected the treaty, His Majesty's Government reserve complete liberty of appreciation and action.