§ Viscount CURZONasked the Prime Minister whether any response has so far been made by the signatories to the Washington Treaty to the decision taken by His Majesty's Government in respect of Singapore?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe answer is in the negative. No immediate or definite response was either expected or called for. The Singapore proposals were, as repeatedly stated, outside the Washington Agreement. No well informed observer, however, can fail to have noted that the general political atmosphere tends steadily to the encouragement of ideas making for further agreements in the direction of limitation of armaments.