§ 7. Mr. Thorneasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Protocol of 1925 that deals with poison gas still holds good with all the nations that signed the agreement?
§ Viscount CranborneThe Protocol is still binding on all the States which have ratified or acceded to it.
§ Sir William DavisonIs the Noble Lord aware that there are no sanctions attaching to the failure to carry out the Protocol; and as all the Powers, both inside and outside the League, have expressed their abhorrence of poison gas in warfare, would it not be desirable that an approach should be made to them to enter into a definite treaty prohibiting it?
§ Mr. Arthur HendersonIs it not a fact that during the negotiations for this Protocol the Italian Government, which has since objected to sanctions, was the Government responsible for proposing the sanctions clause in the Protocol?
§ Sir W. DavisonMay I have an answer to my question?
§ Viscount CranborneMy hon. Friend will realise that he has asked a rather different question from that which is on the Paper. He is asking for new action to be taken, and he ought to put down his question.