GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Mar. 23, 1936

The Lords

¶ Angrily debated a motion recommending that the Covenant of the League of Nations be so revised that Sanctions can never again be applied nor breach of a frontier be cited by the League as grounds for punishing the treaty-breaker.

"All nations break treaties when it suits them. We have done so ourselves!" snorted Lord Arnold. "I have heard a great deal of talk in the last few days about breaking treaties, and people have spoken with moral indignation about powers which broke treaties. Such talk leaves me cold. I am getting very tired of this!"

The Bishop of London verged...

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