§ 37. Sir NICHOLAS GRATTAN-DOYLEasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will specify the nations 1443 which have ratified the Convention of 1925 on the manufacture of armaments; and whether in each case such ratification was conditional or unconditional?
§ Mr. DALTONThe following countries have ratified the Convention for the suppression of the international trade in arms and ammunition and in implements of war, signed at Geneva on the 17th of June, 1925:
All these ratifications are unconditional with the exceptions of those of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of Poland. The ratification of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom was conditional on ratification by the following countries, namely, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Sweden and the United States of America. The ratification of Poland was subject to a reservation suspending the application to her of Articles 6 and 9 of the Convention.
China. France. Egypt. Great Britain and Northern Ireland and all parts of the British Empire which are not separate Members of the League of Nations. Liberia. Spain. Netherlands. Venezuela. Poland.
§ Sir N. GRATTAN-DOYLEWill the hon. Gentleman say who made the signature on behalf of China?
§ Mr. DALTONI must have notice of that question.