Every part of the House was occupied' when Mr, Baldwin rose to peak, After outlining the purposes of the white Paper, the Prime Minister informed the House that, despite provious failures, the Government still hoped that it-was possible to find a basis for an arms limitation agreothat the meeting of the Committee of Thirteen, which was to have taken place in Geneva on March 11, had been postponed until next week Mr. Chamberlain said that the evenix of the week-end confirmed the statements In the White Papot that the situation was for static and hat periodical changes in the pro: ossals must be necessary. mont.
Those words, he added, were written before the events of the woekfend, but he repeated them us being the Government's. objectives.
Defence depended on the foreign polley not only of Britain but ut all Countries. "One nation might make war, but It took 60 nations to secure peace, 'The Prime Minister declared that they would continue to use Britain' prestige and influence in the appeasement of International unrest and to ensue success of the principle of the Covenant, but no Government, in Britain could overlook the possible danger of @ conflict somewhere. Nor was it possible to overlook the consequences of Britain's participation in the League of Nations.
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