IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 33, 9 February 1922, Page 7

IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS

HOPE OF EUROPEAN SOLUTION.

LONDON, 7th February.

Lord Curzon, in the House of Lord's, referring to the Washington Conference, said the quadruple Pact ought to make war in the Pacific impossible. France had, a legitimate cause for anxiety regarding both the reparations and her own safety. The Government was prepared to give her the same assurance that Parliament had approved in 1919, but it would be a great mistake to extend it into an offensive alliance. He anticipated that the Genoa Conference would prove a great constructive effort in the direction of the economic reconstruction of Europe. He believed that even more valuable results would accrue from it, owing to the imposition on all the participants of an undertaking to refrain from propaganda subversive of order, and the existing political systems of other countries, as well as from aggression against their neighbours. He believed tho results in Europe might be equal to those of the Washington Conference in the Pacific. Lord Curzon continued that the Government intended to submit its House of Lords reform policy in the shape of resolutions.

Lord Buckmaster declared that the King's Speech indicated that the Government was resolved, on a General Election. He welcomed such a prospect. The debate was adjourned. .