Inter-Allied Debts.

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am ar 24 Mawrth 1926.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence Mr Frederick Pethick-Lawrence , Leicester West

I am very glad to hear what the right hon. Gentleman says; but I did not accuse him personally of being responsible for that statement. I said he, could not escape responsibility as a member of the Government which had taken that view. In this country the principle of joint Cabinet responsibility holds, and though the right hon. Gentleman may not personally have said it—and I quite accept his statement, of course, that he was careful to guard himself—yet he is responsible as a member of that Government for the views that were put forward, and which found embodiment in the Treaty of Versailles. It is in consequence of the views put forward then that we have suffered many of the miseries that have arisen since, and therefore, though I do not attack him about this Italian debt settlement, I cannot hold him guiltless of a great deal of the suffering through which we have passed, and through which Europe is passing at the present time.