HC Deb 20 May 1931 vol 252 cc1977-8
3. Mr. MANDER

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether steps have yet been taken to ask the Special Commission on the Private Manufacture of Armaments to resume its work, in view of the forthcoming Disarmament Conference?

Mr. DALTON

In its resolution of the 19th January last, the Council of the League of Nations requested the Chairman of the Special Commission on the Private Manufacture of Arms to convene the Commission when the Committee of Experts on Budgetary Questions had completed its work. That committee completed its work on the 28th February, and the question of convening the Special Commission has accordingly been placed on the agenda of the present meeting of the council.

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