HC Deb 20 June 1940 vol 362 c264W
Mr. Harvey

asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the good offices of His Majesty's Government will be used to prevent the dismissal of key members of the staff of the League of Nations in order to keep the machinery of the League in being for the future?

Mr. Butler

The Secretary-General of the League of Nations is aware of the importance which His Majesty's Government attach to the preservation of the Secretariat of the League as a working organisation in so far as circumstances permit. I am confident that he is doing all in his power to achieve this end.