HC Deb 16 May 1935 vol 301 c1910W
Commander O. LOCKER-LAMPSON

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government still desire to use every means to encourage governments to settle disputes of whatever nature through the medium of the League of Nations, even when such dispute arose prior to the formation of the League?

Mr. EDEN

It is certainly the desire of His Majesty's Government that disputes for which the League procedure is appropriate should be settled by means of that procedure; but, the Covenant does not contemplate that every and any matter which might be regarded as a dispute is necessarily one in which that procedure could appropriately be invoked.