"The Times" remarks that the affect of the debate has not completely allayed the general uneasiness regarding next week's pro. ceedings, No clear answer was given to the essential question regarding the time and occasion for possible increase in the member ship of the Council.
It says that there is really no effective answer to Mr. Lloyd George's reminder that the policy of waiting to see what happens at Geneva may be carried too far by a great self-respecting nation and disputable declar: tion of the British attitude at this moment might go far to determine issue, The "Manchester Guardian," which regards the position as highly unsatisfactory, says that Mr. Baldwin came far nearer than Sir Austen Chamberlain to expressing a plain, common-sense view of the situation, and if Sir Austen acts in the spirit of Mr. Baldwin's speech he should come to little harm, The paper adds that if the Premier himself were going to Geneva, the free hand which the Government demanded would lose much of its dangers.—
Reuter,
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