Tokyo, Mar, 8.
Press reports asserting that Great Britain and other Powers intended to intercede in the Sino-Japanese dispute were denied in the Diet yesterday by Mr. Koki Hirota.—Domei Finally, Mr. Chamberlain defended the Government's foreign policy with reference to the criticism in the Labour amendment.
"It ought to be known," he said, "that our desire for peace does not signify willingness to purchase peace to-day at the price of peace hereafter, Nor can we forget our moral. responsibility to our people or humanity in general We cannot divest ourselves of interest in world peace."
The Prime Minister denied that the Government had abandoned the League but asked what small country in Europe, if threatened by a large One, could rely on the League for protection. "None," he replied.
They should not, he added, give assurance of security when such surance could only be a delusion.
The ideals of the League were grand and magnificent, and he would never believe they were not ultimately attainable. The Government, he added, would take its full share in all efforts necessary to attain them
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