§ 19. Mr. CULVERWELLasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what was the amount contributed by each country to the expenses of the League of Nations during the last financial year?
§ Mr. DALTONAs the answer contains a number of figures, I will circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Mr. HANNONWill the hon. Gentleman be good enough to toll the House whether in those figures there is not a larger proportion paid towards the cost of the League of Nations by this country than by any other country?
§ Mr. DALTONYes, Sir; that must be so in any statement of figures regarding these contributions, but that has been so ever since the League of Nations was founded, and the sum is a very small one indeed compared with many other sums paid by the British taxpayer.
§ Mr. DALTONYes, Sir.
§ Following is the answer:
§ According to the latest returns the following payments have been made in respect of the yar 1930, but the final figures for the year are not yet available:
| Gold francs. | |
| Abyssinia (entire contribution) | 55,914.09 |
| Australia (on account) | 611,334.89 |
| Austria (entire contribution) | 224,731.58 |
| Belgium (entire contribution) | 491,195.72 |
| Canada (entire contribution) | 954,776.51 |
| Colombia (on account) | 44,321.70 |
| Czechoslovakia (entire contribution) | 792,543.58 |
| Denmark (entire contribution) | 326,496.02 |
| Estonia (on account) | 61,844.54 |
| Finland (on account) | 205,507.71 |
| France (on account) | 1,637,547.— |
| Germany (entire contribution) Great Britain (entire contribution) | 2,227,110.01 |
| 2,900,767.72 | |
| Greece (entire contribution) | 189,854.91 |
| Haiti (entire contribution) | 25,547.98 |
| Hungary (on account) | 166,60[...].89 |
| India (entire contribution) | 1.532,865.20 |
| Irish Free State (on account) | 209,677.62 |
| Italy (on account) | 1,235,232.22 |
| Japan (on account) | 1,521,565.85 |
| Latvia (entire contribution) | 82,005.40 |
| Liberia (on account) | 24,458.39 |
| Lithuania (on account) | 27,545.52 |
| Luxemburg (entire contribution} | 26,552.— |
| Netherlands (entire contribution) | 629,732.30 |
| New Zealand (entire contribution) | 275,279.74 |
| Nicaragua (on account) | 4,670.45 |
| Norway (entire contribution) | 242,523.56 |
| Poland (on account) | 668,082.45 |
| Portugal (entire contribution) | 158,785.88 |
| Rumania (entire contribution) | 596,921.81 |
| Spain (entire contribution) | 1,096,318.05 |
| Siam (entire contribution) | 247,088.47 |
| South Africa (entire contribution) | 403,598.96 |
| Sweden (entire contribution) | 489,743.85 |
| Switzerland (entire, contribution) | 463,004.48 |
| Venezuela (entire contribution) | 136,743.22 |
| Yugoslavia (entire contribution) | 545,368.68 |