§ 5. Sir Geoffrey Shakespeareasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 832 whether he will take steps to improve and centralise the machinery for supplying to relatives information about prisoners of war in the Far East.
§ Mr. EdenI am in consultation on this subject with my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for War, and other Ministers concerned, with a view to ascertaining what improvement in this machinery can be effected.
§ Sir G. ShakespeareCan my right hon. Friend give any indication of how long it will be before this is done?
§ Mr. EdenNo, Sir; I do realise the desire for this, and we will be as rapid as we can. This, as my hon. Friend knows, is a very complicated question, which concerns a number of other Departments as well.