§ 1. Mr. MANDERasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what reply has been sent to the letter from Miss Maude Royden, the Reverend H. R. L. Sheppard, and others with reference to the offer of a peace army to the League of Nations?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir John Simon)I regret that when I answered the question of my hon. Friend on 16th March on this subject I had not the full information before me. I find that the letter to which the question refers was received at Geneva and acknowledged on my behalf, but this fact was not in my mind when I gave my previous reply. I have expressed my apologies to Miss Royden for this oversight, and I trust that, since there are good grounds for hoping that active hostilities are now at an end, the conditions which inspired the gallant and humanitarian offer of Miss Royden and her co-signatories will not again arise.