Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-14
LLOYD GEORGE BELIEVES IN LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Working in Harmony With The Allied Nation In Rehabiliting The World After Late War.

i London, NOV. 1o.--Vla MOntreal-- At meeting of two hundred leading coalition, i1beral powers and common CTS today, premier Lloyd George, out lined his reconstruction policy. A great >re-h6using program was necessary, he said, the hours of la- ] bor must be reduced, a minimum wage ! introduced and production increased through land reform.
 The prime minister also foreshad- owed large development in trans port and said that there was E-&le in the prevailing revolutionary spirit if l wisely directed. He said he feared neither revolution nor Bolshevism but he did fear reaction and dissension. He wants a United government rep resenting all parties.
 In regard to free trade MT. Lloyd George said he did not propose to go as far as the Paris resolution. The third of President Wilson's points, he contended, prevented any idea of an economic war.
 Irish home rule was essential, he de- clared. but there must be no coercion to northeast Ulster. The premier said he must have the spirit of the liberals The meeting ultimately pledged sup port to Lloyd George and the coalition government during the period of re- construction. A meeting of the Union ist party today voted confidence in Chancellor Bonar Law, after the later had announced that he proposed com mendating the continuation of the present coalition government.
 "One of the principal issues at the forthcoming general election will be the nature oT the peace settlement. It will man the settlement of the world" Premier Lloyd George made this an- nouncement in an announcement to his Liberal Support on Nov. II.
 "What are the principals of which that settlement is to be effecter?' he asked. Are we to lapse back into the old national rivalries, anim osities and competitive armaments, or are we to initiate the erign on earth, or the the prince of peace, it is the duty of liberalism to use it's influence to insure that it shall be reign of peace.
 "What are conditions of peace? They must lead to a settlement which will be fundamentally just. No set clement that contravenes the princip les of eternal justice will eb per- manent oe. The peace of 1871 imposed bv Germany on France outraged all the principles of justice and fair play Let us be warned by that example.
 "We must not allow any sense of revenge, any spirit of Greed, any grasping desire to override the fun damental principles of righteousness.
 "Vigorous attempts will be made to hector and bully the government in endeavor to make them depart from the strict principles of right and to satisfy some base. sordid, squalid ideas of vengeance. and of avarice. We must relentlessly set our faces against that.
 ''The mandate of this government at the forthcoming election will mean that the British delegation to the peace congress will be in favor of a just peace."
 Discussing the question of a league of nations the premier said that such ever. He pointed out that the condi- lions which prevailed in the Balkans before the war were now affecting practically two thirds of Europe.
 "A large number of small nations NdFC pCcIl IG-UOI II III 1Iu'oOS. lc NOil- tinued, "And these will require a league of nations to protect them against the covetousness of ambitious and grasping neighbors. In my iudee- ment league of nations is absolutely essetial to permanent peace.
 "We shall go to the peace confer ence to guarantee that league of na- tions is reality am one of those who believe tht without peace we can- not have progress.A league of na- tions guarantees peace and euaran- tees also an all-round reduction of armaments. and that reduction ot arm anen+ is guarantee tht you can get rid of conscription here. %
 "Of course we must have in this country an efficient army to ro'i"o the emni~e but am loolino forward to condition If thinos. with the ex- ietence ofv laapue of nations. under which conscription will not be neces- sarv in any countrv.'
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