§ Sir R. GOWERasked the Home Secretary which of the member States of the League of Nations have ratified the Geneva Opium Convention, and which of them have declined or neglected respectively to do so?
Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSONThe Geneva Opium Convention has been ratified in respect of all parts of His Majesty's Dominions except the Irish Free State. Of the other members of the League of Nations I understand that the following have ratified, or acceded without qualification: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Japan, Latvia, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Salvador and Spain; and the following have signed, or acceded subject to ratification, but have not so far ratified: Albania, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Nicaragua, Persia, Serb-Croat-Slovene State, Siam, Switzerland, Uruguay and Venezuela.