§ Mr. CLYNESasked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that in a Report on The Hague Conference, dated 21st July, signed by M. Litvinoff, L. Krassin, and N. Krastinsky, the delegates stated, referring to their offer of 19th July to the non-Russian Commission, that the Russian delegation consented, under certain conditions, to ask the Russian Government whether it agreed to continue negotiations after a radical change in their basis, that is, whether it was ready to renounce the question of credits to be granted or guaranteed to the Russian Government as a result of the Conference, and to be content with the situation which logically followed from Comrade Litvinoff's formula (the de jure recognition of the Soviet Government), and which would facilitate the obtaining of the necessary credits, not from Governments but from individuals and private groups; and whether, if the Russian Government accept the formula which its delegates at The Hague proposed submitted to it, His Majesty's Government will accord immediate de jure recognition to the Russian Government so as to facilitate the raising of credits by the Russian Government, and thus render possible the fulfilment of the pledges which the acceptance of the formula involves on the part of Russia?
§ The PRIME MINISTERHis Majesty's Government have not received the Report to which the right hon. Member refers. 1043W As regards the second part of the question, I have nothing to add to the statement which I made in the House on Wednesday last.