After the Address had been moved and seconded Mr. MacDonald,
disregarding the long-established precedent for confining the discussion on the opening day of Parlia- ment to general principles, tried to provoke a debate on foreign policy by strongly censuring the Government for having said one thing in the King's Speech and having in practice done quite. another. Mr. MacDonald did, of course, discuss domestic affairs, but foreign policy was dominating his mind, and it was upon this subject that he wanted an immediate answer from the Prime Minister. Mr. Baldwin had no idea of consenting. He pointed out that amendments to the Address would be moved in due course. He would then answer Mr. MacDonald's eriti- -eisms in detail. lie very reasonably said that the ease against the foreign policy of the Government had not been heard from Mr. Lloyd George; and that it would be discourteous to the Liberal Party to take Mr. MacDonald's criticism as the only word.
