PEACE OF THE NATIONS
BRITAIN'S MEMORANDUM LORD CECIL’S CRITICISM. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 25. (Received January 26, at 1.25 p.m.) Declaring that the Government’s memorandum is most disappointing regarding arbitral ion, Lord Cecil says that the refusal to “all in” arbitration could not be due to the Government thinking arbitration advisable with good people but wrong with bad people. The only oib«r possible conclusion was that the Government preferred to arbitrate than to quarrel with powerful countries, which were not of a very high-minded attitude. Ido not know the ground on winch the Government argues that people would not support general arbitration. Will tbs Government subject the question to a free vote of the Commons or ask the League to remove such doubts? ” Britain’s signature was all-embracing. Arbitration would give the world a lead. Persistence in the present attitude was tantamount to guilt in maintaining that war was the legitimate method of settling disputes.—‘ The Times.’
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Evening Star, Issue 19774, 26 January 1928, Page 9
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158PEACE OF THE NATIONS Evening Star, Issue 19774, 26 January 1928, Page 9
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