§ Major CARVERasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has caused any inquiry to be made into the circumstances of the dismissal from the service of the Sudan Government in 1922 of Mr. F. H. Sunderland?
Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSONMr. Sunderland's appointment in the Sudan was subject to three months' notice, and in the early part of 1923 the Sudan Government decided to dispense with his services for reasons which they considered good and sufficient. As the result of repeated representations by Mr. Sunderland his ease was personally considered by my two predecessors in office and by myself; it was also examined by the late Sir Lee Stack and by Sir Geoffrey Archer. The conciusion reached by all of us was that there existed no grounds whatever to call in question the decision of the Sudan Government.