§ Mr. MANDERasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the fact that peace is indivisible, he will make it clear to the French Government that the British Government is only interested in a collective system which operates equally against all aggressors, and that, unless France is prepared to co-operate at once fully and effectively in bringing to an end the Italo-Abyssinian war, Great Britain cannot be relied upon to continue to support the collective system?
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§ Viscount CRANBORNEI would refer the hon. Member to the reply which my right hon. Friend gave to a similar question asked by him on the 30th March, to which I have nothing to add.
§ Sir A. WILSONasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received through the League of Nations any of the statements sworn by members of the Egyptian Red Cross as to torture, emasculation, mutilation, and murder of prisoners by Ethiopian troops, including an Italian flight-lieutenant; and whether he will place any such reports in the Library?
§ Viscount CRANBORNEOn 10th March the League of Nations circulated to His Majesty's Government and to the Governments of all other members of the League a communication from the Italian Government embodying certain affidavits sworn in Cairo on their return to Egypt by members of the Egyptian Medical Mission to Ethiopia alleging the maltreatment of certain Italian prisoners. I am arranging for copies of this League document to be placed in the Library of the House. I should, however, add that my right hon. Friend is informed that the medical officer in charge of the Egyptian Mission has publicly declared that the foundation on which the affidavits mentioned above were based is incorrect.