§ 5. Mr. COCKSasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether 813 he can make any statement as to the present position of the Austro-German Customs Union proposal?
§ Captain EDENOn the 5th September the Permanent Court of International Justice, by eight votes to seven, gave their opinion that the proposed Austro-German Customs Union was incompatible with the terms of Protocol No. 1, signed at Geneva on the 4th October, 1922. Two days previously the German and Austrian Ministers for Foreign Affairs had, at a meeting of the European Commission, announced the decision of their Governments to refrain from giving effect to the Vienna Protocol of the 19th March, 1931.