News of the Week
PARLIAMENT was prorogued by Royal Commission on Friday, August 8rd. His Majesty's Speech contained the words: " My Government have been happy to accept the proposed treaty for the renunciation of war in the forth id which it was finally proposed to them by the Government of the United States. The proposed treaty has similarly been accepted by my Governments in the Dominions and by the Government of India. It is my confident expectation that, when completed, it will constitute a new and important guarantee of the world's peace.
We earnestly trust that " the King's own words," spoken for us all; will convince the people of the United States, and particularly their Senate, that Great Britain and the Empire are whole-heartedly for the Peace Pact, and that those explanations of already existing condi- tions in this hemisphere, which the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs felt bound in conscience to make in his Noted, 1 to :Washington, are not " reservations " from 'which any American can fairly deduce that any Briton is less honestly or less earnestly in favour of the Pact than he is himself. The signing is' expected to take place in Paris - on August 27th.
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