The debate on the Address to the Throne was resumed to-day In the: House of Commons, by the Labour: member, Mr, Trevelyan, who attacked the Government's policy towards Egypt and towards Russia, He asked whether Egypt was now veally independent, and what the Government proposed to do as regards Russia, with whom, he asserted, other countries were now making commercial agreements.
Mr. Austen Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that his conversations, With M. Herriot and Signor Mussolini had been conducted in the true spirit of the League of Nations, establishing mutual relations _of trust and confidence. He emphasized that the conversations had come as. close to an agreement as possible Dut never at the expense of those, not there. He had heard much of; the foreign point of view in regard to the Geneva Protocol, but he himself had been unable to express any.
ion on the Protocol on behalf the Government, because the first Cabinet magiing in. that connexion was only held on the day his departure from London, Mr, Chamberlain said that inter-
In conclusion the Forel retary, fresh: from the meeting of the Council of the League of Nations, voiced his strong confidence the future of the League.
The Geneva Protocol Mr, Ramsay MacDonald pressed the Government to afford members of Parliament an opportunity for discussion of the Protocol before consulting the Dominions. The Leader of the Opposition also urged the Chancellor of the Ex chequer to impress upon Britain's Allies at the forthcoming financial conference that it was necessary that Great Britain should ease her tax-payers of the burden resulting from Allied non-payment of debts.
Mr. Ponsonby moved a Labour amendment to the Address regret the Government policy with) egard to Egypt and Russia, Mr, Ponsonby''s amendment was finally rejected by 363 votes to 132,—Reuter.
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