§ Viscount SANDONasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the question of the Hungarian optants, considered by the Council of the League of Nations at its recent meeting, still remains open; and whether the Council contemplates taking the necessary steps to cause the vacancy on the Roumano-Hungarian Mixed Arbitral Tribunal to be filled?
§ Sir A. CHAMBERLAINNo, Sir. In so far as concerns the appeals made to the Council of the League of Nations by Roumania and Hungary, respectively, in March, 1927, which were considered at the last meeting of the Council, the question is closed. As regards the second part of the question, I would refer the Noble Lord to the reply which I returned on 2nd July to the hon. Members for Cardigan, Central Hackney and Ayr Burghs.