§ 1. Mr. MORGAN JONESasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will instruct the British Minister at Peking to offer his services with a view to negotiating an armistice between China and Japan?
§ The LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL (Mr. Baldwin)My right hon. Friend does not consider that to make an offer of the kind suggested would be likely to lead to good results.
§ 2. Mr. MORGAN JONESasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the fact that Japanese troops are now in possession of a large area south of the Great Wall, in territory that is without dispute Chinese, he proposes to raise the question of the Far East as a matter of urgency and to ask for an extraordinary meeting of the League Assembly to discuss it?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe Japanese or Manchukuo troops which have advanced 822 southwards from the Wall are now, according to my information, retiring. The situation does not appear to afford sufficient reason for His Majesty's Government to ask for an extraordinary meeting of the League Assembly to discuss it.
§ Mr. JONESMay I take it that the answer implies that the League of Nations Assembly take no further interest in the operations of the Japanese Government in that part of the world?
§ Mr. BALDWINI would not make any comment myself on implications that might be drawn from the answer.