27. Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYasked the Prime Minister whether, before leaving London, Monsieur Poincaré signed a note to His Majesty's Government on behalf of the Government of the French Republic in which he upheld that the Treaty of Versailles gave France the right to take against Germany, in case of default, any measures of coercion she deemed appropriate; whether His Majesty's Government has sent a reply to this note; if so, what is the nature of the reply; and what is the attitude of His Majesty's Government towards this claim?
The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)Some correspondence on this subject has been exchanged between the two Governments. We are quite prepared to publish the relevant papers as soon as the consent of the French Govern- 4 ment has been obtained. In the course of the conversation which I had with Monsieur Poincaré here on 10th June, he expressed the hope that further sanctions, if they had to be applied, would be applied in common.