The feeling is much the same in the House of
Lords, where on the same day (Thursday) Lord Cecil made a speech plainly stating that, if the Disarmament Con- ference broke down, Germany alone would be responsible. This speech drew from Lord Hailsham the now famous sentence that, " speakirig as an individual," he thought that if Germany rearmed illegitimately, the sanctions contemplated by the Treaty of Versailles would be applicable. The statement was, no doubt, the paren- thesis of a legal mind, and though great exception has been taken to it in some quarters, the hypothesis which prompted the statement is at least more " monstrous " than the statement itself. Apart from these evidences that Parliament is deeply worried about the international situation, the week has produced little of interest.
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