§ Captain BULLOCKasked the Prime Minister whether, in the communications sent to the Dominions with regard to the proposed signing of the Optional Clause, the desirability of taking decisive action at the forthcoming meeting of the League of Nations has been impressed upon them; and whether it is his intention to secure their unanimous approval before committing this country to the provisions of the Clause in question?
§ Mr. DALTONThe Governments of the Dominions are being consulted by telegraph and they are therefore presumably aware that His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom regard the question as urgent. Until the exchange of views has been completed, I do not think I can properly add anything to the statements of the Government's views which have already been made in the House.