Regarding a national register, he concluded, it would be time to decide the matter of compulsion when "we have seen how the people respond to the appeal to register voluntarily.
"It we are going to devote the "whole resources of the country upon armaments, irrespective of the effect On civil industry and the financial structure of the country, that would be a different matter."
Lord Stonehaven said that he was not convinced that the Government was alive to the seriousness of the situation.
It was hoped that there would be great results from the Munich Agreement, but it would be more satisfactory if one saw some sort of response in the German press.
"Let us not worship appeasement in the same way as some worship collective security," he concluded.
The debate was then adjourned Reuter.
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