No Definition of Term in Polish Resolution Lord Cushenden emphasized that the Government would not accept the terrible risk of the commitment involved in the Geneva Protocol, it being impossible to take any in regard to the optional "providing for the submission judicial matters to the Hague Court of Arbitration" wi London, Nov. 16, The fact that no definition of the term "war of aggression" was made by the Assembly of the League of Nations when the Polish resolution against war came up at its recent meeting was disclosed by Sir Austen Chamberlain in the House of Commons at question-time to-day, His Majesty's Government absolutely accepted the two declar tions in regard to wars of aggres. sion and welcomed the Begian proposal to strengthen Article XI of the Covenant dealing with the prevention of ws Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, in the course of a long explanation of his resignation from the Cabinet—his portfolio has been assumed by Lord Cushenden—declared that the Navall Limitation Conference at Geneval had formally broken down on the question of the size of guns of! cruisers, the American delegates! claiming the right to instal 8-inch'
while the British Cabinet had ited on -inch guns, 'The American attitude seemed to him entirely] wrong, but it was madness to allow' the negotiations to break down on such a point.
The Earl of Balfoui Lord Pro-pressed the japed, temporary difference between Great Britain and the United States at Geneva was the refusal of The Foreign Secretary said that the assembly had wisely refrained from attempting a definition, was easier to recognize a war of aggression than to define one. To attempt a definition would quite possibly be to frame a trap for an innocent party, He thought it far wiser to leave the competent thority to decide who the aggressor was when the facts were before it.
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