The Labour Members did not} return to the House during the debate but met and adopted a resolution, while deprecating persistent obstruction of business, that there had been no justification for the "peremptory "and arbitrary action of Mr. J. F. Hope, the Chi of Committees, in naming Mr. Kirkwood's slight' interruption: which were in nowise provocative or disorderly." The Executive subsequently decided to lodge a motion' to the effect that Mr. Hope had acted with undue haste and im-
Patience and that therefore the naming of Mr. Kirkwood was unwarranted, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald will tomorrow ask the Government for an opportunity to discuss the motion, which doubtless be granted Newspaper Comment Mar. 6.
Comment on Mr. Austen. Cham-in's speech is directed at the cautiousness of his utterance.
'The "Times" appreciates the Dominions' distaste: of the Geneva Protocol which is shared here. The Protocol, says that paper, is simply a new and more plausible version of a feeble compromise of the Peace Treaty over the unrealized Rhine -frontier. The journal declares that on the other hand the suggestion of a wider pact as indicated in the German proposals to the Allies must be considered seriously.
The Guarantee Pact Mr. Austen Chamberlain, ex Foute to Geneva, has departed for Paris where he will meet M. Herriot—
Reuter.
Paris, March The newspapers are of the that Mr, Austen Chamberlain's speech clearly shows that Great Britain favours a guarantee pact between Britain, France and Belgium, in which Germany might be associated. They declare, however, that such a pact will be ineffective unless completed by military rangements on all the fron Germany, whose associate pact will only be useful the League of Nations unreservedly,
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