§ 15. Mr. D. GRENFELLasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government regard themselves as still bound by the findings and recommendations of the Assembly Report of 24th February, 1933, which recommends that the League of Nations should continue to afford China the technical assistance in modernising her in stitutions which the Government may re quest, with a view to enabling the Chinese people to reorganise and con solidate the Chinese State and to set up a strong central Government?
§ Sir J. SIMONThe recommendation of the report to which the hon. Member refers was that the League should afford technical assistance to China as one of the methods of the policy of international co-operation initiated at the Washington Conference. International co-operation in China is governed by the terms of the Nine Power Treaty signed at Washington in 1922, which expressly safeguards the principal of equality of opportunity for all nations. The Council of the League have laid down that the functions of their agent in China are of a purely technical and entirely non-political character.