79 and 80. Sir NICHOLAS GRATTANDOYLEasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1) how the following organisations are able to receive the services of the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, in view of the fact that a portion of his salary and expenses is defrayed by the British taxpayer: International Conference of Catholic Employers' Associations, International League for the Defence and Furtherance of Protestanism, Baptist World Alliance, World's Evangelical Alliance, and International Federation of Societies of Freethinkers;
(2) whether His Majesty's Government was consulted before the following organisations: the International Federation of Dramatic and Musical Criticism, the International Society for Logopedy and Phoniatry, International Bookbinders' Union, the International Association of Cooks, the International Union of Hairdressers, and the International Bobsleighing and Tobogganing Federation, as stated in the League of Nations' handbook, were allowed to avail themselves, under Article 24 of the Covenant of the League, of such services of the League organisation as are in part paid for by the British taxpayer?
§ Mr. EDENIf my hon. Friend will refer to the introduction of the League.1f Nations' handbook on which he bases his questions, he will see it there stated that the insertion of an organisation in that handbook "by no means implies its recognition by the League." If he then turns, as requested in a footnote to that statement, to page 9, he will find a list of the organisations placed under the authority of the League by virtue of Article 24 of the Covenant. As not one of the organisations named in his two questions is included in this list, no services of the League organisation or of its Secretary-General have, so far as I am aware, been available to these organisations and consequently no charges in connection therewith have fallen to be met out of the British taxpayers' contribution to the League of Nations.
§ Sir N. GRATTAN-DOYLEThat being so, may I ask my hon. Friend whether it is not rather misleading that the official handbook of the League of Nations should be used for the indiscriminate advertisement of all kinds of foreign societies when part of the cost of publication comes out of the pockets of the British taxpayers?
§ Mr. EDENIf my hon. Friend will refer to the handbook, he will see the position clearly explained. I found it after looking at the book myself.