Major DAVIESasked the Under-secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, with a view to reducing national expenditure on armaments and to provide an adequate sanction for the decisions of the League of Nations, any steps are 1190W being taken to investigate the practicability of the formation of an international police force; and whether he will consider the advisability of proposing to the members of the League of Nations that a military commission shall be appointed to report on the matter?
§ Sir H. GREENWOODThe hon. and gallant Member's question refers to subjects decisions as to which will clearly fall within the competence of the Council of the League of Nations. Under Article IX. of the Covenant a Permanent Commission is to be constituted to advise the Council on military, naval, and air questions. But I would remind the hon. Member that the Council cannot meet until the Treaty of Peace has come into force.