But something more than this was wanted. He ad- vised,
therefore, or has been understood to have advised, that the British Empire should offer a kind of reinsurance 91 to France and Germany over and above this scheme. He said :- " The opinion of this country is coming increasingly to believe that the British Empire—not only this country, but our Dominions— should undertake to guarantee both to France and Germany to use all its powers against either State which pressed a quarrel against the Allies without calling into use the machinery of the League. It ought not to be a question of guaranteeing territories or the atafue quo. It ought not to apply to France or to Germany alone. It ought to be collective, general, and, indeed, universal to all parties represented on the League of Nations, and against any Power resorting to force in breach of the Covenants of the League."
