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The elimination of Article XVI
(sanctions) from the Covenant of the League of Nations was suggested from two sides—Lord Sankey, formerly Lord High Chancellor, and Lord Stonehaven, formerly Chairman of ihe Conservative and Unionist organization—when the debate on foreign affairs was resumed in the House of Lords to-day.
Lord Noel-Buxton, Labour peer, pleaded for concession of the principle of a restoration of the former German colonies. When that was done, he thought the idea of an adjustment could freely be discussed. The Germans, for example, he said, well understood the difficulty about Tanganyika. He thought they were looking more to West Africa.
Replying for the Government, Lord Swinton, Secretary for Air, depreciated requests for comprehensive statements on British policy and procedure as a disservice to the object ig an all-round settlement, since what was needed was a quiet discussion.
Paying a tribute to Lord Halifax, Lord President of the Council, as an ideal interpreter of English life and thought, Lord Swinton expressed the hope that his visit to Germany would: be treated circumspectly.
Too much, he said, should not be expected from it, and the worst service to any negotiation was to surround it with a tremendous glare of publicity.—Reuter.
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