Practically every Debate dealing with foreign affairs is a Debate on the special topic or Crisis of the Times, but this Debate deals with the results of the expenditure which is the result of a policy pursued over the last six years.

Only a sense of the great Crisis of Our Times impels me to do so.

This problem, which I only name in order to leave it, because I am conscious that there are many others who wish to speak, is the real Crisis of Our Times; it is the discovering of means by which we can cut down and curtail that great drain on the manpower of our country and, by doing so, show the world what a country devoted to the ends of peace can do in the interests of peace, and not in the interests of death and war.