Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has followed up his address to the
Reichstag with a lecture to the Comite National d'Etudes - in Paris. Sir William Tyrrell, the British Ambassador, was on the platform. Mr. MacDonald said that although the Labour Party believed in " Security " for every nation, it saw in armaments and in balances of power the causes of the very trouble which they were designed to prevent. What was wanted was " Confidence." Hitherto even the most peace-loving nations had assumed that a large expenditure was necessary for self-defence, and it was impossible to arrive- t any common formula as to what was necessary for self-defence as the alleged needs of the nations varied enormously. An agreement might indeed be reached on those lines, but even if it solved the problems of Finance Ministers, it would not solve the problems of Foreign Secretaries.
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