§ 24. Mr. Channonasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what legal steps would have to be taken in Britain and France to end the Condominium over the New Hebrides; and if he will recommend to the French Government that the Condominium should end.
§ Mr. FisherThe legal steps would depend mainly on what was to replace the Condominium, but in Britain they would include the revocation of the Orders-in-Council giving the force of the law to the Anglo-French Protocol providing for the Condominium and to its amendments. It is not however my intention to recommend to the French Government the end of the Condominium.
§ Mr. ChannonDoes my hon. Friend find it very easy to administer this Condominium since the breakdown of the Brussels negotiations?
§ Mr. FisherI do not think that the Brussels negotiations have made any difference at all to the administration of the New Hebrides.