GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Dec. 17, 1934

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¶ Cheered a belated tribute to Hoover Diplomacy by one of the Empire's brainiest peers, Philip Henry Kerr, Marquess of Lothian. "The great failure of the present British Government in the Far East," said Lord Lothian, "is that it did not cooperate wholeheartedly with the United States when Secretary Stimson protested against Japan's absorption of Manchukuo." Welcoming with terse realism Japan's present virtual rupture of the London Naval Parley, the Marquess exclaimed, "Now we have an opportunity to redeem our blunder, and if...

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