'A crowded gathering, including number of Ministers, listened to the speech of Mr. Stanley Baldwin, which was in the nature of a reply to his eriti The Prime Minister outlined the Government's achievements hitherto, especially referring to the bene. fits conferred by the Widows Pension Act and the creation of the Food Council, As regards foreign policy he said: "We make the Treaty of Mutual Guarantees sub-Ject to the sole condition that Germany must join the League. The treaty must be bilateral and purely defensive in character." He had every hope that the same principles that guided us in the West might be applied in the permanent pacification of Eastern Europe.
Mr. Baldwin said that there had been a great deal of misapprekension as regards Mosul. He pointed out that, except for a small rectification "of the frontier, we [were not concerned in claiming any territory from the Turks which we did not control to-day. The Govern. ment had no reason to think that Turkey would not fulfil her obligations of honour, The Cabinet Committee, the Prime Minister said, was considering a reform of the House of Lords.
Mr, Baldwin pointed out that! Britain had succeeded in the stupendous accomplishment of reducing national expenditure by one third in the past five years. The [Chancellor was determined to make] 'a substantial reduction in the next
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