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Show LONDON, July 17, 5:25 p. m. The question ques-tion of the possibility of a dispute be-tlon be-tlon of the possibility- of ad fspute between be-tween Great Britain and the United States over the status of the commercial submarine Deutschland, which arrived recently re-cently in the United States, was raised in the house of commons today by John Dillon, who asked Lord Robert Cecil, minister min-ister of war trade, to present immediately to parliament the communications which had passed between the two governments and to undertake to keep the house fully informed of the course of negotiations In this matter. Lord Robert replied that the correspondence corre-spondence was progressing and that it was not In the public interest that it should be published now. He would see that tle suggestion to keep the house informed of the course of the negotiations negotia-tions was fully considered. "Will you see." asked Mr. Dillon, "that parliament is not committed to a dispute with the United States without the house being given an opportunity of discussing the whole subject" Lord Robert replied: "I don't think the house would wish me to give such an undertaking as that, but I will present tire suggestion to-Sir Edward Ed-ward Grey." |