London, Jan. 18.
Mr. J. H, 'Thomas, Labour 'Member' for Desby, resumed the] debate on the Address from the Throne in the House of Commons to-day before a thin House. He said that the Labour Party did!
regret and were not going to apologize for their association with the Internationelists. Tar hour was resolved to spare no efforts to give the world and eivilizution a common organization which would bring people together wod enable then to understand each other. The more they understood each other, the more difficult it would be f6r other people to plunge them into war. (Loud La-our choers.) Ho declared that Britiph prestige hid never been lowered 40 much us it was to-day.
The speaker declared that a situation was being created in Central Europe necessitating expenditure on our own defence. No. party was entitled to claim party advantages out of danger to the nation, the Ministerialists could be satisfied that the propos. als wore expedient, they might wall, without departing from their principles, ro-arrange the food duties 80 as to enable them to be carried out. "The proposals wore in the nature of 'a. moral gesture and the direction in which the gesture was made might affect very seriously the future attitude of the Dominions to Britain, when a generation or two eno the Dominions were among the greatest nations of the earth. The action of the British Government to-day might detormino the value they would be to the Empire and the help they would be to the people of Britain. (Choers.)
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