TEST MOTION IN THE HOUSE

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 76, 31 March 1922, Page 7

TEST MOTION IN THE HOUSE

IMMEDIATE CRITICISMS

LABOUR'S NO-CONFIDENCE

AMENDMENT

(UNITED FISESS ASSOCIATION.—COPZKIGHT.) (AUtTRAMAN-Ngi; ZIALAND CAiLI ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 29th March. "When he. announced in the House of Commons the resolution which Mr. Lloyd George will move on Monday: "That the House approves the resolutions passed nt Cannes as the basis of the Genoa Conference, and 'supports the Government i;i its endeavour to Rive effect to them," Mr. Chamberlain said he hoped the House would leave the matter to be dealt with by the Prime Minister. He could not deal adequately with the scope of the Conference by replying to questions. „ | Lord Robert Cecil: "Are we to under- j stand that the scope of the Genoa Conference will be confined to the. Cannes resolutions?" My Chamberlain declined to. 3iipply tho information.' Colonel Archei'-Shee: "Are we to understand that the Government intends to recognise the murderous anarchists of Moscow?" The Speaker said such a question should not bo put. The Labour Party has tabled the following amendment to the Government's motion •.—■"Whilst approving of the international Conference, the House regrets that the scope for discussion at Genoa | is so circumscribed'that it must fall short of a settlement of the political and economic evils which afflict Europe, and is of opinion that the Government has not the confidence of the country, and is not competent to represent the country.' 1