Mr. Baldwin wound up the debate in a speech of
sympathetic common- sense. In effect, he declared that- we could not. obtain disarmament till the . questions of reparations - and -security had been settled,' and until Powers- like Poland felt that their frontiers were safe from attack. In a word, there must be a.general, acquies- cence in the status quo before people would, by .laying:.; down their arms, make the status . quo irrevocable: We agree. - This happy condition of things , is' not really so Utopian a dream as it . appears. No one, it is . true, will ever be . quite . satisfied with things as they. aro. Nations will have .hankerings• after change.. If; however, they could take _their :claims into. an International. Court.. of Law, need they feel hopeless ? You may hope to:•witt.. a lawsuit as you hope to -win a battle.
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