§ Mr. MACQUISTENasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether a lunch in the Carlton Hotel was given by the Government on 18th January to Mr. Maurice Donnay; whether the said lunch was presided over by the Minister for Education, and Mr. G. B. Shaw was then selected as British representative at the Molière celebration in France; whether, seeing that Mr. G. B. Shaw's pamphlet against England was used by the Germans to encourage Moorish tribes to revolt against France, and who has stated that France hates England, such an appointment was fully considered by the Ministry?
Mr. HARMSWORTHThe answer to the first part of the question is "Yes." The President of the Board of Education presided at the lunch, but I am not aware of any foundation for the suggestion that Mr. Shaw was selected by the Government as British representative at the Molière celebrations in France, and the last part of the question does not therefore arise.