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§ VISCOUNT STANSGATEMy Lords, I beg to ask the Question which stands in my name on the Order Paper.
§ [The Question was as follows:
§ To ask His Majesty's Government when it will be possible to report on the visits of the official observers to Bechuanaland and to announce the Government's policy in the matter.]
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS (LORD ISMAY)My Lords, the reports of the observers who went to the Bechuanaland Protectorate in August are among the papers on Bamangwato affairs which I am at present carefully studying. Until I have made myself fully conversant with this complicated problem, I cannot make any statement on Government policy. But I hope to publish the observers' reports at an early date.
§ VISCOUNT STANSGATEMy Lords, I am grateful to the Secretary of State for that reply.