§ 4. Mr. Manderasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the present position in Memel, and to what extent those who were sentenced in the treason trial of 1934–35 have now been liberated?
§ Viscount CranborneAs far as I am aware, the political position in the Memel territory is now generally satisfactory, the ordinary administration being conducted by a Directorate of Memellanders under a governor appointed by the Lithuanian Government, in accordance with the terms of the Memel Statute of 1924, while economic conditions in the territory have benefited from the commercial and frontier traffic agreement concluded by the German and Lithuanian Governments in August last. According to the latest report from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Kovno, about half of those sentenced in the treason trial have now been released, the total number still in prison being 44.