Mr. Wheatley, one of the Labour Members who issued the
now notorious report on their visit to the Ruhr, made an interesting speech, which showed how con- siderable was the divergence between his and his friends' views and that of official Labour. But he did not make his position quite clear. At one time he was asking the Government to nip the great Imperialist schemes of France in the bud, and at another saying that the primary duty of this country was to mind its own business. The Prime Minister summed up the debate with a speech very like his former one on the amend- ment to the Address. His fundamental argument seems to be that we cannot• intervene because France would consider it a hostile act. If we did intervene "we should have to prepare ourselves for the possibility of enforcing our will upon France by war."
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