§ 27. Major PROCTERasked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether he is aware that France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Holland, and Poland are definitely participating in, and that Rumania, Austria, Denmark, Hungary, Greece, the United States of America, and Turkey are interesting themselves in various sections of, the forthcoming Levant Fair at Tel-Aviv, Palestine; and whether he can now give an assurance that British participation in this fair will be on such a scale as to ensure the advancement of British trade interests?
§ Captain EUAN WALLACE (Secretary, Overseas Trade Department)I am unable to confirm my hon. and gallant Friend's statement as to the countries which are participating or interesting themselves in the forthcoming Levant Fair at Tel-Aviv, but I am making inquiries. With regard to the second part of the question, I would refer to the 1387 reply I gave to my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Coventry (Captain Strickland) on 11th December.