The Archive · 1928

Tu the House of Commons to-day

Sir Austen Chamberlain was asked whether the British delegation on the Disarmament Commission at Geneva had received any instructions regarding the Soviet proposals for general disarmament, The Foreign Secretary replied that the British delegate had been instructed to ce-operate with his! colleagues in securing the fullest examination of the Soviet proposals, The House would notice from the reports in the press that he lad. carried out his instructions with great skill and judgement, Sir Austen Chamberlain stated that settlement of the questions outstanding between the Persian Government snd the British Government had yet been reached und he could not at present make a statement regarding the negotiations for the establishment of a vil air-service between Iraq and India.—British Wireless Through Reuter.

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