§ Mr. Russellasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the numbers of information officers employed by his Department in each foreign country, together with the numbers of those who have had practical journalistic or advertising experience.
§ Mr. Dodds-ParkerThere are 152 officers who are employed by the Foreign Office solely or primarily on information work abroad. This figure includes those who are locally engaged as well as those on the United Kingdom based establishment. Of them 59 are known to have had practical journalistic or advertising experience.
The details are as follows: 12W
— Number of Information Officers Number with journalistic or advertising experience 1. EUROPE: Austria 4 — Belgium 1 1 Denmark 1 — Finland 1 — France 2 — Germany 17 8 Greece 3 — Hungary 1 — Iceland 1 — Italy 8 3 Netherlands 1 1 Norway 1 — Spain 2 — Sweden 2 1 Turkey 3 — Yugoslavia 3 1 51 15 2. MIDDLE EAST: Iran 2 — Iraq 5 2 Israel 1 — Jordan 2 — Lebanon 6 — Libya 3 1 Persian Gulf 2 — Sudan 2 — 23 3 3. UNITED STATES 30 20 4. SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA: Argentina 3 3 Brazil 2 1 Chile 1 — Colombia 1 1 Cuba 1 — Guatemala 1 — Mexico 3 1 Peru 1 1 Uruguay 1 1 Venezuela 2 1 16 9 5. SOUTH-EAST ASIA AND THE FAR EAST: Burma 5 3 Cambodia 1 — Indonesia 3 — Japan 5 2 Laos 1 — Singapore (Commissioner General's Office) 6 3 Thailand 7 3 Vietnam 4 1 32 12 WORLD TOTAL 152 59