A Perfectly Honest autem Solve Geneva Deadlock London, Nov. 18, The Mouse of Commons to-lay resumed the debate on the Address.
Mr. Lloyd George, leader of the Liberal Party, putting a motion de~ claring that the Anglo-French Naval Compromise endangered the prospect of peace in Europe' and good relations with America, ungod that the basis of foreign " polley should be the promotion of universal friendship and ce-operation on the basis of the Covenant of the League of Nations and the Peace Pact.: He also urged that the Government should make it clear that they. had abandoned the Anglo-French Naval Pact and returned to the policy aid down at the Washington Conference in 1922 of definite limitation -of naval craft, great and small.
The Premier, Mr, Stanley Baldwin, said that the compromise was,—siressing the past _tense-—no more than a perfectly honest and~ straight-forward attempt to end the Geneva deadlock, which was threstening the whole work of disarmnment, The compromise had failed and, therefore, they must begin over again.
Mutual Understanding Lacked He did not believe, Mr. Baldwin. continued, that the British ection in making a reservation to the Kellogg Pact and in negotiating the Anglo-French Compromise had aroused the suspicions of the United States, but he agreed that Preel& ent Coolidge was right in saying: that Europe and the United States Incked mutual understanding, the reason being that the statesmen of Europe and the United States seldom met and, therefore, it was dificult for them to understand their mutual idiosyneracies. urged that all concerned should study the differences between the
tries, Pattcal systems of the two caum The First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. W. C, Bridgeman, winding up the debate, declared that he still bee Vieved that there was a chance of getting an agreement on the of what was the maximum countries were Likely to build in the next six years, Experience had shown that armed merchantmen had not the slightest chance against cruisers of similar or even smaller armament. Britain was prepared, he added, to consider any way possible towards the reduction of armaments, The amendment submitted by Me. Lloyd George was then rejected by the House by 326 votes to 163—Reuter.
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