IMPORTANT CONFERENCE
GENEVA, LAUSANNE, AND OTTAWA PROVISIONAL LIST OF BRITISH DELEGATES (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright,. RUGBY, March 17. (Beech cd March IS, at noon.) The Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons to-day the piovisioual ILst uf delegates to tlio Ottawa and Lausanne Conferences, Ho said tho Government had to lie represented practically simultaneously at three most important conferences this summer the Disarmament Conference at Geneva, the conference at Lausanne opening m June, and the Imperial Conference at Ottawa in July. Any_ announcement must depend on the claims made upon the services of the [Ministers during the summer. The delegation for Geneva was known. The representatives tor Ottawa would bo the Secretary lor tho Dominions (Mr J. H. _ Thomas) , tho Secretary for the Colonies (Sir lin lip Cunliffe-Lister), the President of tho Board of Trade (Air W. Ruiiciman), and a representative of tho Alinistry ot Agriculture, and, subject to Government business considerations, the Lord President of tho Council (Air Baldwin), the Chancellor of tho Exchequer (Air Chamberlain), and the War Secretary (Lord Hailsham) would also attend. At the Lausanne Conference the Government would bo represented by tho Prime Minister, Air Chamberlain, Sir John Simon, and Afr Rnneiman. H advisable and possible the services might be utilLed ol Sir Herbert Samuel, Sir Samuel lloare, or a representative of tlio Dominions Office,
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Evening Star, Issue 21055, 18 March 1932, Page 9
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225IMPORTANT CONFERENCE Evening Star, Issue 21055, 18 March 1932, Page 9
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