§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the fact that the envoy whom the Soviet Government propose to send as Ambassador to this country is the Ambassador who was in charge of the Embassy in Canada, certain employees of which were found to have been concerned in the espionage activities exposed by the Canadian Royal Commission, he will express His Majesty's Government's preference for a different envoy to be sent.
§ Mr. MayhewThe Canadian Royal Commission which investigated the espionage activities in Canada reported that the evidence before them was that those members of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa who were engaged in improper 31W and inadmissible activities operated in special sections of the Embassy, the operations of which were quite distinct from the official and legitimate activities of the Soviet Embassy, and that the Soviet Ambassador in Canada had no part in them. This circumstance was borne in mind by His Majesty when he gave his agrément to the appointment of M. Zarubin as Soviet Ambassador in London.