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hesitate to express my opinion that just now, during
the truce which prevails, is the time to bring
it forward. The need of a settled peace
increases everywhere, and it is therefore probable
that a proposition to the great powers
respecting a guaranteed neutrality for the united
kingdoms would meet with general sympathy in
Europe.
On these and many other grounds I sought
to maintain my proposition.
It was opposed by the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Baron Hochschild, amongst others, who
declared that he could not possibly support
it. He informed us that the whole of his
colleagues in the Government took the same view
of the subject as himself. He desired that the
bill as well as the contingent appointment of a
committee should be thrown out totally and
entirely.
As the minister in this way has made the
matter into a cabinet question, there could
not well, under the present conditions, be any
question of the adoption of the bill.
In spite of this, however, the request of the
Foreign Minister was not complied with,
seeing the Second Chamber adopted an
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