HC Deb 16 February 1953 vol 511 cc873-4
31. Mr. Wyatt

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will make a further statement on the negotiations with the Egyptian Government with regard to the Sudan.

28. Mr. Driberg

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will make a further statement on the negotiations about the future of the Sudan.

Mr. Eden

I have nothing to add to the statement I made in the House on 12th February, but I hope to lay a further White Paper very shortly.

Mr. Wyatt

Would it not help the Foreign Secretary in his difficulties with the discontented Members of his party, if he told them that when the Prime Minister described the action of the Labour Government in giving independence to India, Burma and Pakistan as scuttling, he was misinformed?

Mr. Eden

I do not understand the meaning of the hon. Member's hypothesis, and I am not in any need of his cure.

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