§ 23. Mr. Loftusasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will consider incorporating, in any suggestions put forward for the reform of the League of Nations, a proposal that it should be made an essential condition of membership that a member State shall not directly or indirectly subsidise or organise propaganda in another country directed to the overthrow of the Government of that country?
§ Viscount CranborneThe attitude of His Majesty's Government towards propaganda of this type is well known. But I do not consider that the Covenant of the League of Nations would be the appropriate place for a stipulation of the character suggested by my hon. Friend, or that the submission of such a proposal to the Committee on the Application of the Principles of the Covenant would lead to any useful result.
§ Mr. LoftusDoes my Noble Friend realise that genuine co-operation between Governments within the League must remain impossible as long as any Governments are fomenting and organising revolution in the territories of other Governments?
§ Viscount CranborneI would suggest to my hon. Friend that the reform of the 15 Covenant in any case will be a most complicated matter, and it is not necessary unduly to complicate it further. This is a very important matter but I think it could more properly be treated in a separate instrument.