Mr. A. C. Moreing, Conservative member for Preston, inquired if the British Government would give every support to the Shanghai Municipal Council in any resistance they may make to the Japanese demands, Mr, Eden: "Yes, that has already been done, Mr. W. Gallacher, Communist member for West Fife, then asked; "Does Mr, Eden's earlier reply mean that Japan is continually breaking her promises?"
Mr, Eden replied that Mr, Gallacher might draw any conclusion he liked from his answer.
It-Cmdr. L. R, Fletcher, Labour member for the Nuneaton division of Warwickshire, asked if the Settlement had ever been leased or ceded by the Chinese Government to the Governments concerned, or was international control only de facto control, The Foreign Secretary, in answer, stated that that was an entirely different question from the question on the paper, Col J, C. Wedgwood, Labour member for Newcastle-under-Lyme, said the matter was rather urgent s Britons were being forcibly restrained by the Japanese from entering their own property in Shanghai, and in the neighbourhood of Shanghai. He asked if Mr. Eden would give full information next Friday what was happening in Shanghai.
The Foreign Secretary expressed willingness to do so at any time the question was put down in writing.
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