ARBITRATION PACT.
ATTITUDE OF BRITAIN. CRITICISM BY LORD CECIL. . SHOULD GIVE WORLD A LEAD. (IVr Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, January 25. Declaring that'the Government's memorandum to the League of Nations regarding international arbitration was most disappointing, Lord Cecil of Chetwood says a refusal to "all in" arbitration could not be due to the Government thinking that arbitration was advisable with good people, but wrong with bad. The only other possible conclusion was that the Government preferred to arbitrate "than quarrel with powerful countries, which was not a .very high-minded attitude. "I do not know the ground on which the Government argued that people would not support general arbitration. Will the Government subject the question to the free vote of the House of Commons, or ask the League to remove such doubts*?" asked Lord Cecil. Britain's signature to an all-embrac-ing arbitration agreement would- give the world a lead. Persistence in her present attitude was tantamount to asserting that the maintaining of guilt >vas a legitimate method of settling disputes. ,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 90, 26 January 1928, Page 5
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