Lord Addison thought the Government's decision to proceed with the Anglo-Italian conversations without preliminary conditions, which their Foreign Secretary considered desirable, was a risky and unbusinesslike' proceeding, and he expressed anxiety that there should be the closest ce-operation with the French Government, Lord Lothian supported the Government in its policy of trying to break through the miasma of suspicion which lay over Europe, and seek an arrangement to save Europe and the world from a repetition of 1914, Lord Londonderry also spoke in support of the policy outlined in the House of Commons by the Prime Minister on Tuesday.
Lord Allen and Lord Ponsonby were two Labour peers who welcomed the Government's decision of the new approach to European countries with whom there were difficulties and misunderstandings,
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