§ 7. Mr. Haleasked the Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what representations he received from the Government of the Dominion of Australia with reference to the recent arrangements for atom bomb experiments within the territory of the Dominion; and what action has been taken.
§ Mr. J. FosterNone, Sir. The second part of the Question, therefore, does not arise.
§ Mr. HaleIs it not rather remarkable, in these circumstances, that when Ministers of the Australian Government make public complaints about the arrangements, they do not even waste time to send them to the hon. and learned Gentleman? Will he explain why, when Questions are put down to his Department, they are passed to the Minister of Supply? Is not the cause of this trouble not that it is fostered by the Communists but that some things are being communised by the Fosters?