§ 8. Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONEasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the committee of three 1716 over which he presided was aware that the negotiations between the Polish Government and the Ukrainian minority in Eastern Galioia on the subject of the Ukrainian complaints concerning the reprisals inflicted on them by the Polish Government during last autumn and other breaches of their minority rights broke down because the Polish Government insisted, as a condition for further discussions, that the Ukrainians must withdraw their petitions which they had placed before the League of Nations; and whether, seeing that such a condition is a denial of the minority rights of the Ukrainians and an infringement of the minority treaty signed by Poland, and that the responsibility for the observation of minority treaties was specifically placed on the League of Nations, the League obtained any assurances from the Polish Government with regard to the future conduct of negotiations?
Mr. A. HENDERSONThe Polish Government have denied that such a condition was ever made by them. If it had been, the Committee of Three would naturally have regarded it as entirely inadmissible.