§ 49. Mr. Eldon Griffithsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what arrangements he is making to increase youth exchanges with the Federal Republic of Germany.
§ Mr. PadleyYouth exchanges between this country and the Federal Republic of Germany are running at a reasonable level as a result of the work of many 189W voluntary organisations, local authorities, schools and also as a result of private initiative. However, as the House will recall, Her Majesty The Queen announced in her Berlin speech during the State Visit to Germany earlier this year that these exchanges would be increased by the help of Government funds. Last month a two-day meeting was held in London with the competent German authorities under British Council chairmanship to explore ways and means of increasing these exchanges in the next financial year. Not only was a pattern of exchanges established for next year but it was proposed to set up a Special British-German Committee which would keep the subject under review and report periodically to the Mixed British-German Cultural Commission.