"yet that strength must be depen-dont upon the extent to which. all members of the League, in accord Jance with their relative' capacities Jare prepared to play their part. There tean be no collective system in which the full burden is to be borne by tone oF two."
Moreover, Mr. Eden continued, the loflective establishment of a collective peace system was now the only jway fo an arms agreement by which the burden of world armaments might be reduced.
It would be a profound mistake to Imagine that the British, Govern ment or people were "pro" or "ant" any country. Its policy was directed against no individual or nation as Sich, but, aga League member, was bound to be opposed to any violation of the Covenant, It would always be found arrayed on the side fof the collective system against any [government of people which sought, by a return to "power polities" to break up the elective pence system, ignoring the Covenant, which pro: vided "machinery for a peaceful 'The British people desired nothing ardently as peace, and founded {their policy on membership of the Leojuue' of Nations as the best hope of achieving it,
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