§ 2. Mr. SMITHERSasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to the decision of the Presidium of the Komintern of the 24th March, establishing national secretariats for Communist propaganda in many countries, including Great Britain; and what action does he propose to take to obtain the dissolution of this secretariat in Great Britain now that the exchange of Ambassadors has taken place?
Mr. A. HENDERSONOwing to the hon. Member not thinking it necessary to give the year in which the decision to which he refers was taken my Department has been involved in a great amount of research. As a result, only one decision of the 24th of March has been discovered, and that was in 1926. This resolution of the Presidium of the Comintern dealt with an organisation located in Moscow, not in England, which, in any case, was subsequently abolished, presumably because it was ineffective.