§ Commander BELLAIRSasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in view of the sum involved in the purchase of the wheat in Roumania and the transaction having been completed, whether he can state who was the head of the responsible purchasing bureau; what was his nationality; and who were the expert advisers who assisted the Legation to supervise the expenditure of the ten millions?
§ Lord R. CECILThe Director of the Central Purchasing Bureau at Bucharest was Mr. Joseph Pitts, formerly British Pro-Consul at Braila, and a British-born subject. Attached to the bureau were two comptrollers, whose duty it was to inspect the purchasing bureaux established in the provinces. These provincial offices were, in their turn, under the direction of nine inspectors and thirty-four grain experts, or surveyors, with expert knowledge of local conditions. I understand that the majority of these latter officials were of Roumanian nationality.