HC Deb 24 March 1926 vol 193 c1220W
Major GLYN

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government will consider the desirability of making representations to the Governments of various foreign Powers that, when British subjects are arrested on charges within the Colonial or mandatory territory of any European Power, under no circumstances should British subjects be placed in prisons or under confinement in places which are recognised as being unsuited to their health and well-being, but that they should have that treatment which British Governments have in the past insisted upon as being due to British subjects?

Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN

The views of His Majesty's Government in regard to the treatment of British subjects in Colonial or mandated territories of other Powers are well known by foreign Governments, and I do not think that any useful purpose would be served by adopting my hon. and gallant Friend's suggestion.