§ 19. Mr. Viantasked the Prime Minister whether, in view of the large number of resolutions he has recently received from persons and organisations to the effect that permanent peace can only be secured by a general settlement and urging the necessity for the holding of a new peace conference open to all nations and directed toward remedying the economic and political conditions likely to lead to war, and asking that he will, in consultation with the President of the United States of America, after adequate preparation, offer the fullest collaboration of this country in bringing the negotiations to a successful issue, he will state the Government's attitude toward this proposal?
§ The Prime MinisterHis Majesty's Government are in agreement with the view that permanent peace can only be secured by a general settlement. They are of opinion that before such a settlement could be attained by a peace conference a considerable amount of preliminary preparation would be necessary, and they are constantly doing everything they can to promote such preparation.