§ Mr. MALONEasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government intend to take steps to ensure that complaints and petitions from minorities, whose rights were safeguarded under the Versailles and other treaties, are given proper consideration, and whether His Majesty's Government is satisfied with the present procedure; whether he is aware that petitions from the Ukrainian minority in Poland were addressed to the League of Nations on 4th December, 1928, and 15th January, 1929, and acknowledged by the Secretary-General; and what is the present state of affairs concerning these petitions?
Mr. A. HENDERSONI have no reason to believe that complaints and petitions from minorities are not given full and proper consideration by the League of Nations. As my hon. Friend is probably aware, the procedure with regard to the treatment of minorities petitions was modified as recently as last year, and all the Governments represented at the Assembly last September1884W agreed to give the revised procedure a trial. I have hitherto received no information regarding the two petitions mentioned in the last part of the question.