COMMONWEALTH: Parliament's Week: Apr. 28, 1924

(.British Commonwealth of Nations)

House of Lords. Royal Assent* was given to the Lausanne Treaty (TIME, April 14), which will now be formally ratified by Great Britain. House of Commons. Major General J. E. B. Seely, Liberal ex-Secretary of State for War and ex-Secretary of State for Air, suggested that the Government should call an international conference to discuss reduction of aerial armaments. "The position is exceedingly serious and ought to be faced,"; he said. "France has built up a great air force. I do not believe it is directed against...

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