HC Deb 27 February 1934 vol 286 cc933-4W
Duchess of ATHOLL

asked the President of the Board of Trade to which of His Majesty's Colonies, possessions or protectorates, or to which mandated territories administered by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom the provisions of the temporary commercial agreement with the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in April, 1930, have been extended; and to which of such countries agents of the trading organisations of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have been sent?

Mr. RUNCIMAN

The provisions of the Anglo-Soviet Temporary Commercial Agreement, 1930, were extended to Malta, Bermuda, British Guiana, Falkland Islands, Jamaica (including Turks and Caicos Islands and Cayman Islands) Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, Wind- ward Islands (Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent). The agreement expired on 16th April, 1933. I am not aware that agents of the trading organisations of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were sent to any of these Colonies, but I have no complete information on the subject.