QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 37, 12 February 1926, Page 9

QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT

CHAMBERLAIN'S GTJABDED , UTTERANCE. , •

. (Australian-New Zealand Cable Assn.) (Received 12th February, 11 aoa.) . LONDON, Uth February. ' In the House of Commons, replyiac to Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, sir Aastea Chamberlain, Foreign , Minister, said Germany's application for admittance to the League of Nations inevitably opened up the whole question of the composition of the Council of the League, and would give rise to ebiuaa in other quarters. Until the latter were considered, it was impossible to say which course would best serre the League's interests. :

The British Ministry was at imisill considering all the issues, and k* hoped it would be possible to make a state* ment before he left to attend tit* March meeting of the Council.; He hoped it would te recognised that la such a matter, in which a good deal of difference of opinion might exist, it was desirable that full weight saoold be given: to the feeling and arguments; both of the Council and the Assembly on this point The objset ttdwM. ness of the League would be destnpai if delegates were rigidly bound *» their instructions beforehand.

. Mr. E. Thurtle (Lab.) a*k«4t «•& » true, as stated in the Press, that y«« have undertaken to support Spate's claim to a seat in the Council!"

Sir Austen Chamberlain: "I do as* wish to add to my statement. It is unfortunate I have been asked to 4* 80."