§ 23. Mr. MORELasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether, seeing that the Military Clauses to which Germany was required to subscribe were imposed, as indicated in the preamble to Section 1 of the Treaty of Versailles, as a preliminary step to a general limitation of the armaments of all nations, that no such general limitation has in fact taken place on the Continent of Europe, and that the manufacture of war material is continuing on a very large scale, His Majesty's Government will consider whether, in the interest of European peace, the time has now arrived when the problem of German armaments should no longer be treated as an isolated one but as part of the general problem foreshadowed in the Treaty?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe preamble to Part V of the Treaty of Versailles implies, as my hon. Friend affirms, that the disarmament of Germany is to be a preliminary step to a general limitation of the armaments of all nations. His Majesty's Government have always associated the two things.