§ Mr. Manderasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs who has been nominated by the British Government for appointment to the League of Nations expert committee on the status of women; what nominations have been made by other countries; and whether he will consider the desirability of including as many women as possible on the committee?
§ Viscount CranborneAn expert committee on the status of women was appointed by the Council on 26th January, 1938; its composition is as follows:
1286WMme. Paul Bastid (France), Professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Lyons.
M. de Ruelle (Belgium) Legal Adviser of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Mme. Anka Godjevac (Yugoslavia), Doctor of Law, Technical Adviser of the Yugoslav Delegation at the Codification Conference (1930).
Mr. H. C. Gutteridge, K.C. (United Kingdom), Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Cambridge.
Mlle. Kerstin Hesselgren (Sweden), Member of the Second Chamber of the Riksdag, Rapporteur on the Status of Women to the First Committee of the Assembly (1938).
M. Paul Sebestyen (Hungary), Counsellor of Division, Head of the Treaties Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Miss Dorothy Kenyon (United States of America), Doctor of Law, Member of the New York Bar, and Legal Adviser to a number of national organisations.
It will be observed, with reference to the last part of the hon. Member's question, that the women members of this committee are in a majority.