The Prime Minister reappeared in the House on Monday to
move that the. House approved of the Cannes-resolutions as the basis of the Genoa Conference and would support the Govern- ment in trying to give effect to them. It was,- he said, a-vote of confidence in the Government. His colleagues had not modified it in any way. The Labour amendment complained that the scope of the Conference was unduly restricted. But the Allies would not have agreed -to- attend ea on the condition —which he thought just—that existing treaties should not be revised there. Genoa was not the place at which to discuss boundaries or reparations. France naturally would not submit such questions to the judgment of her late enemies. Many people, of various parties, objected to such Conferences as being useless. But a bruised and battered world would need many consultations of its leading physicians. The first problem was to restore the machinery of international trade, on which we, ,above all other nations, depended for our existence. Trade, however, could not flourish when currency had gone adrift. The exchanges must be stabilized on a gold basis, though not as yet at the old par values.
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