The three principal speeches on the Debate were, of course,
from Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Asquith and Mr. Bonar Law, in the Commons, and. from Lords Grey of Fallodon and Curzon in the Upper House. All the speeches were based on the Ruhr question. Mr. Mac-, Donald was general and uninteresting. He was not in favour of direct opposition to France, whose only security. was " as a wholehearted member of a real functioning League of Nations." He did not go -into foreign policy. in view of the coming Labour amendment to the Address. Mr. Asquith made only one definite point, but that a good one : that the whole reparations problem should be referred at once to the League. Thus an attempt 297 would be made to solve together the three great inter- locked problems of reparations (and he might have said inter-Allied indebtedness), French security and dis- armament.
