That an offer was made some time Senhor Da Motto paid a tribute to the heroic resistance of Finland, The Mexican delegate, Senor J. Fabela, also spoke at the meeting and expressed his Government's full sympathy for Finland's cause. However, while approving the report of the Committee, his Government was not of the opinion that Soviet Russia should be excluded from the League as this step had not been taken in previous cases and prevents the possibility of a peaceful solution of the dispute, The general discussion ended at noon,—Havas, ago by the Queen of the Netherlands and the King of the Belgians of their mediatory offices, and that it was subsequently rejected by the German Government, was recalled during the House of Lords debate today initiated by Lord Darnley with the support of Lord Arnold, who has consistently criticized the policy of resistance to aggression for several years on pacifist grounds, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, summed up the attitude of these two speakers as "war settles nothing—let's try for compromise." On this he commented that it was no use thinking of peace unless the enemy wanted peace, The Bishop of Chichester said he was not a pacifist nor an advocate of the so-called fight to the finish. The guarantees the British people sought for the future, he thought, would not be obtained by continuing the war beyond the moment when they could be secured by negotiation, Lord Samuel, former Secretary, considered that if Germany was willing to withdraw from Poland, the way would be open to negotiation, but with the military position as it now was, negotiations would clearly lead nowhere,
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