On the second reading of the Consolidated Fund Bill, a
speech by Mr. Charles Trevelyan drew from the Secretary • of State for- Foreign Affairs. statements on Russian and Chinese relations, and upon the Naval Limitation . Conference. From these it appeared that the door is -not closed to a resumption of relations with Moscow if there is any request from the Bolshevists and any reasonable hope that they mean to behave like other people. Similarly in China we would thankfully treat with anyone who had authority to treat with us. In regard to Geneva, Sir Austen Chamberlain quoted an excellent statement of the British need for Naval forces made by the Chairman of the House of Representa- tives' Committee on Naval Appropriations putting our position before that House as clearly as Mr. Bridgeman put it at Geneva. On the same day the House agreed to the Lords' amendments to the Trade Unions Bill.
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