§ Mr. WILLIAM PEELasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he proposed to exchange information with Germany on the subject of naval construction, in view of the declaration of the German Imperial Chancellor against the policy of the limitation of armaments?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir E. Grey)The speech of the Imperial Chancellor, to which
§ Registers in ordinary Public Elementary Schools in England and Wales during the statistical year ended 31st July, 1904, 1907, and 1910, respectively, in the following form:—
§ other Public Offices on the 31st day of March, 1911, specifying whether held in England or Ireland (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 155, of Session 1910):—
§ the question refers, expressly accepted the idea of an exchange of information, and expressed readiness to come to an agreement about it, and I see nothing in what the Imperial Chancellor said about limitation of armaments that in any way makes exchange of information less practicable or desirable.
§ Mr. PEELDoes the Foreign Secretary see any value in the exchange of information about naval building in this country when the Imperial Chancellor expressly said he would agree to nothing in the way of limitation of armaments? Is there any public purpose to be served?
§ Sir EDWARD GREYIf the hon. Member will refer to the speech I made on the 13th March, he will see that I deprecated the use of the phrase "limitation of armaments," but I distinctly said that "reduction of expenditure" was a better phrase. So far as exchange of information might remove distrust between any two countries, it would have an effect upon reduction of expenditure.