§ 26. Mr. Harold Daviesasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in view of the fact that the Soviet Government has now agreed to the removal of the two main obstacles to the conclusion of a European security pact he himself put forward at Berlin, namely, the participation of the Americans, and the existence of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, if he will take advantage of the fact that all the Foreign Ministers are now at Geneva to raise the problem again, as a basis for further discussions on European security.
§ Mr. NuttingNo, Sir. The agenda agreed for this meeting by the four Foreign Ministers at Berlin consists of Korea and Indo-China.
§ Mr. DaviesI thank the hon. Gentleman for that reply, but we are fully aware that the agenda is as he said. Might it not be an opportunity, while the Foreign Ministers are together, to give the world an indication of the attitude of this Government to the Soviet Note with regard to the participation of the Americans and the complete compromise 843 on the condition so far as N.A.T.O. is concerned? Realism sometimes is not exactly synonymous with expediency.
§ Mr. NuttingI could not begin to understand the last part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question, but if he wants to find out the view of Her Majesty's Government and the other N.A.T.O. Governments which agreed to the text, he has only to read Command Paper 9146, laid last week, which gives the answer of Her Majesty's Government to the Soviet Union.