May 4.
Clear unanimity marked _the approval of the House of Commons to British policy as outlined by the Prime Minister and Sir John' Simon on Thursday evening. Great Britain carries France and Italy with her in leaving the way open {o German ce-operation in establishing the system of collective security. Germany is given free choice. Her ce-operation can be. based on honourable equality. of status and the regime of Versailles has been abandoned. The abandonment, however, requires her endorsement. If that be lacking she is paradoxically compelling. the perpetuation of the very conditions to which she objects. She argues that the League is nothing but an organization for the armed encirclement of her borders. By remaining outside the League she deliberately encourages that condition, By continuing to pursue desperately feverish rearmament policy, in admitted defiance of her obligations, she must, inevitably
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