The Archive · 1924

The Treaty of Mutual Assistance

Holland Unwilling to Support Present Proposal of League of Nations The Hague, Aug. 5.

The Foreign Minister, in his reply to the League of Nations declining to support the proposed mutual guarantee pact, says that the Gov-ament will aim to strengthen the legal guarantees of the League Nations, but it does not feel justified in supporting the present proposal to create an organization based on power instead of on right, and likely, to lead to international complications instead of strengthening the: principle of unity and ce-operat munists who created a disturbance by singing the "International" and scattering revolutionary pamphlets,—Reuter.

Mr. Lloyd George complained of the Htek of information, wut twitted Ponsonby on going to sign, to-rot row sovnething of which he-had not the ghost of an idea to-night. He asked how much of the debes we were going to write down, and what was the extent of the' pro-josed loan. He declared that the Liberals would. oppose the proposal to guarantee a loan which we would... not grant to any other of the Al-

The debate on the Russian ques-adjourned to-morrow on the tion in the House of Commons was

pressure of the Opposition, who feontended that the debate showed that. the House opposed the agree Jment, which ought hot to be signed until' the House had seen the text.

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