Continuing, Mr. Butler offered, as the best guide to an understanding of the Government's foreign policy, the fact that it was trying to comprehend the new world it iw growing u around it and the new forces in it.
That did not mean that it sympathized with, or very much liked. what it saw of these forces. But the alternative to comprehension might be war, and he invited the Opposition to remember that the Government had saved the country from a ghastly war.
In facing the new order of things, the Prime Minister, Mr. Butler claimed, was seeking to retain the values of the old.
There was, for example, the ideal of the settlement of international disputes by peaceful means, and connection he begged the House country not to unde significance of the joint at Munich, in which two grent peoples had agreed to settle all differences between them by the method of consultation.
He went on to make a reference to discussions on League reform at the Assembly in September and reminded the House that the British delegation had taken the lead in favour of a separation of the Covenant from the peace treaties, giving it for the future an independent wud separate life, and in favour of collaboration with nonmember States in order to bring about unive: sality.—Wireless and Reuter.
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