He said it had, therefore, been' proposed that any naval agreement should be pursued with the other Powers. Any separate agreement between Britain and America would) be-purely provisional until the other first preliminary to a successful declared that the conversations which he has had with General Dawes end Mr. Hugh] Gibson on the subject of naval disarmament were, in no way, directed against anyone. The Brit sh Government, he informed the Assembly, declined absolutely to build against the United States. The conversations had not yet ended, added, but agreement had gone far and a document containing twenty points for an agrecment—of which only three were outstanding at the present moment—might be produced.
Ye are out, for a document that will establish peace, besides an, agreement on naval Yatios." Mr.
Ramsay MacDonald said he was in ino way sure that announcement of Hehe agreement could not, be made li before the end of the sittings: of the present Assembly of the League} jot Nations.
Mfr. MacDonald remarked that the foundation of peace was arbitration. Then he made. the announcement: concerning Biitain's intention to sign the optional clause of the Hague Statute, The Palestine Outbreak Speaking in connection with the situation in Palestine, the British] Premier said that a nation accepting. a Mandate, accepted a national re. sponsibility. There was no racial conflict in Palestine between Moslems and Jews, he declared. The present trouble was simply an outbreak of lawlessness and disorder, and no nation could ever tolerate such an outbreak, Britain's first] daty, he said, was to get the situation in hand: that had been done.
Her second duty was'to inquire into all the circumstances, discover the reasons for, and prevent a recurrence of, the outbreak.
In conclusion, the British Premier], said that the League must do more to solve international economic prolems. Tariff barriers were not justified, he said, for they produced} poverty and low wages.
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