HOUSE OF LORDS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 77, 25 November 1922, Page 5

HOUSE OF LORDS

/ . BRITAIN’S DARK OUTLOOK.

Free© Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London > November 23. la the House of Lords, Lord Disking moved th© Address-ia-Keply. Speaking as one who opposed thu lat© Government’s Irish policy, he hoped the Government would not allow the present condition of lieland to go on indefinifeiy, and that if, after an adequate interval the Irish failed to repress murder and outrage, the Government would take the matter in hand firmly and reestablish law and order. He expressed sympathy with, the unemployed, and hoped they would not be led astray by extremists. Viscount Grey said the situation in the Near East was menacing, and the only chance ol getiu*g through w r as by the Allies presenting a united front. The Government should go carefully into what commitments the Coalition Government had entered into with regard to Mesopotamia. It was only by strengthening the League of Nations that they could produce a feeling of security, enabling a reduction of expenditure on armaments. Viscount Grey said the future of li’eland was dark. He uaw no hope, but Britain must abid© by the treaty and leav© Ireland to work out her own future Ho feared the British people did not realise the present gravity of foreign affairs, and ho was not sur o whether w e had not already reached a point whom Turkey, Russia and Germany were combining. The 1 future of Britain depended "enormously upon the manner in which the Government cairied out its responsibilities in reference to the unemployed. Lord Birkenhead, referring to Labor’s election success, said the efforts of all sane politicians ought to b© directed against those who wanted to pull down the prop and pillar upon which our civilisation depended. That required all tlfe resources of the new Government, whoso main I aims and hopes he intended to support. Th© address was carried.