§ Mr. BETTERTONasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs when the final ratification of the Treaty of Lausanne may be expected, in view of the fact that, the capitulations being abolished, there is no longer any effective guarantee for the observance of legal and commercial agreements entered into; and if he is aware that decisions on points of Jaw and commercial practice are now being given which are at variance not only with the principles of justice but also with the clauses of the treaty itself?
§ The PRIME MINISTERWith regard to the first part of the question, I can add nothing to the reply which I gave to the hon. and gallant Member for Stafford (Mr. Ormsby-Gore) on the 12th May. It is realised that the delay in the entry into force of the treaty is responsible for certain abnormalities such as those alluded to by the hon. Member, but such cases as have been brought to the notice of His Majesty's representative at Constantinople are forming the subject of representations to the Turkish Government.