He assured the House that the naval programme was strictly with-its of the London Treaty.
ling up to the limit, he called that those who took part the London Naval Treaty were informed that, in accepting in had no margin and assume that every ton they had said, was required: would be needed. The Government was considering armaments, not against any other power, bat in relation to its own defensive land protective needs. That why they still believed in treaty lagrcements and proposed to pursue the policy of trying to reach them.
Mr. MacDonald observed that behind the defence policy was a political policy of diplomacy and a for-feign policy. The aim of the Gov-lornment was peace, and peace could 3. lonly be based on international cooperation. The aim of every nation today must be to pursue and to develop peace, not only as regards itself, but as regards the whole com. ity of nations, and that was what the Government was doing.
The League of Nations, properly used, was the only organization in existence to secure peace and the. Government, therefore, would do, everything possible to restore and maintain its authority, Britain's measures of Imperial defence were to enable her to secure peace. As such, the Prime Mir ter concluded, they were recognized by the whole world,
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