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...subject of "security." Viscount Cecil for Britain steadily opposed the inclusion of the "Degrees of Security" or "Invisible Armaments" clauses in the agenda. To him and to the British press, disarmament was evidently a subject which had to do chiefly with scrapping tangible implements of warfare. However M. Paul-Boncour, in the name of France and the smaller nations, insisted that the "intangible" factors actually outweighed the "material" in importance...
...Protocol, in the name of Britain, declaring that it would act merely to punish and not to prevent "international crime" (i.e., War). He implied that Britain had a distrust for "elaborate schemes" and preferred an extra-League Security Treaty, for the present. 3) He was answered by M. Paul Boncour, for France, on whom the dead Viviani's mantle as an orator has descended, in a pro-League speech of wonderful eloquence but neglegible moment...
...PAUL BONCOUR: "I have no suspicion that the Premier aspires to dictatorship-his twofold tradition as a lawyer and republican makes such a suggestion ridiculous. And if he was not bound by diplomatic reserve I believe he himself would censure those carnival Caesars who rule over neighboring States. But I would remind the Premier that no regime can ever be defended which yields on principle...