Viscount Cecil's Proposal to"
Sign Optional Clause London, Feb. 15.
There was a debate in the House of Lords today on a motion by Viscount Cecil, urging the Government, after consultation with the Dominions, to accept the jurisdiction of the Permanent Court of International Justice in justiciable disputes by signing the optional clause of the Constitution of the Court, Lord Cushenden, replying for the Government, said he was not able tater.
the esteem.in which the Earl of Oxford and Asquith is held in|of invasion. But it mast be left to launched against the Government it {0 held out any hope that Brita the British Isles were in no danger He said that from the charges
The Earl of Oxord and Asquith, France—Reuter, history to get at the correctness of was clear that the issue lay between Change a policy which had been who is suffering from acute pharycee such reports, and only history can Socialism and private enterprise. consistent since 1820, He express~ ngitis, with signs of bronchitis, has assess his position as the head of "It is a great issue that is goi ed the opinion that' it would be become unconscious. His family So intimately was the Earl of a war cabinet, It will be recalled to lie before the country," he said. unwise to go beyond the customary that in answer to a question in the "Tt is an issue on which we shall have been summoned.
Oxford and Asquith bound up with system of arbitration and take House he made the remark "Wait. fight at the next election and on Feb, 14, the titanic events of the world dur-leap in the dark by signing an ing his career that it will Lo long and see," and this was seized upon which you and I have got to 'The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, optional clause which he did not before a proper appreciation of is, his' political to electors our alternative policies. who was reported yesterday, to have demanded that the consider really affected the ques-work can be forthcoming, and it The policy advocated by the Opbecome unconscious, is now weaker Folicy should be substituted by a tion of peace.
would be futile at the present mo-position was a policy of nationalizaand sinking.
"Push and go" one, and ultimately Lord Cushenden emphasized that ment to attempt to do more than tion, accompanied by a large relief Feb, 15.
Public pressure, in' the belief that scheme. Without doubt the more his main difficulty in discussing sketch an outline of his career, He The death hay occurred of the Asquith was not the man to disarmament at Geneva had arisen was born at Morley in Yorkshire in nationalization they had the more
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