Finally Sir Austen Chamberlain invited critics of the Government to
consider exactly what obligations they would be willing to accept if the responsibility Was theirs. His own feeling was that we had accepted as many obligations at present as we could undertake to fulfil and that it would be dishonest to undertake more. At the same time he fully recognized that as security was gradually built up the League could be used in ways which were not as yet open. It was the duty of every- body* in all parties to work for security. This, it seems to us,• is as much as Sir Austen Chamberlain could be expected to say. The methods of obtaining security, which. is the indispensable condition of disarmament, have been defined by the Assembly of the League in a series of resolutions and to these resolutions the British Government was a party. * *
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