§ Lieut.-Colonel Sharpasked the Secretary of State for War whether he has considered the air-mail envelope bearing the Athens postmark of 2nd July and received by the hon. Member for Spen Valley in London on 26th July; and since this transit period is not comparable with the five days taken in the case of Army airmail, whether he will permit British U.N.R.R.A. personnel in Greece, many of whom are ex-Army officers, to use the Army air-mail service as is permissible in the case of U.S. U.N.R.R.A. personnel until the transit times are comparable.
§ Mr. LawsonThe value of the stamp appearing on the envelope in question was insufficient for it to travel by air-mail and it therefore came by surface route. As stated in reply to my hon. and gallant Friend on 23rd July, I am unable in present circumstances to agree to extend Army postal facilities to U.N.R.R.A. personnel in Greece.