The full text of the important speech delivered by Sir John Simon on British Foreign Policy in the House of Commons on. November {10"has been received in Shanghai. Att when time Great Britain's support of" the sue of Nations is being conv on the one hand by impatient sceptics, who expect the League to work miracles and never to make mistakes and on the other hand by equally impatient zealots, who pear to'believe that the League ix exempt from, the axiom which dejelares that the whole. is greater than the part, Sir John Simon's view, of British obligations under the Covenant should be studied.
ihe cruse "that" the. Beitiah government took seriously the encagements entered into on the basi of the Coverant and the Locarno Treaty, He was gratified therefore that. the French plan for disarmament did not ask from Great Britain \anything more than had been pledge fed: under those instruments, Then tame this admirably phrased state-eerie is mn eential part of British ies, however the Government may ro. compared, that every such ment given by ug must, be entered Into. net: lightly or inndvisedly, but discreetly and" honourably, entitled in thie conneeifon. the Howto of the. dedo the other day. at Foul Herriot. ity is which Herve! sai
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