The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-16
NO VARIANCE
BETWEEN US.
AND ENTENTE.
ENGLISH TOLD
Delegates Have Never Forgot
ten Sacrifices of France,
Declares Lloyd George in
Address Before Commons.
REACH UNDERSTANDING
(By Associated Press)

10y ASSoCldtoO HIcSSJ
LONDON. April 16-The allied rep.
resentatives in Paris have arrived at
q complete understanding on the
great fundamental question that would
affect peace with Germany, Premier
Lloyd George declared in addressing
the house Of commons today. The al
lies had formulated their demands.
and he hoped that by the end Of next
week they would be presented.
The premier made a vigorous at
tack upon those who had "attempted
to show dissention, distrust and sus-
picion" between the nations whose
cordially and good will toward each
other was essential he declares at
a time when nothing could save the
world but keeping the nations to.
gether.
"It is not true that the United States
and Europe have been at variance"
Mr.. Lloyd George declared, adding
that no one could have treated more
sympathetically the peculiar prob
lens and especial susceptibility Of
Europe than President Wilson. The
premier deprecated attempts to create
dissention among the delegates.
Every Pledge Fulfilled
The delegates, said Mr.. Lloyd
George. had never forgotten what
France had gone through and they
had not forgotten to what she was en-
titled-not merely security against a
repetition of the German attack, but
| to feel q sense Of security against it.
| The conference had come to a unani-
nous conclusion on all the questions
before it, including a decision that to
publish the peace terms before they
were discussed with the enemy would
be a first class blunder. Their pre-
mature publication, he contended.
could only serve to encourage the re-
sistance of the enemy.
The declaration regarding making
Germany pay, he declared. had hsen
concurred in by all the party leaders.
The premier said he had come to
the house of commons to ask release
for any pledge he had given.
| II am here to say that every pledge
we have given is incorporated in the
demands put forward by the allies,
he asserted. 1--WE stand by them be-
cause we believe ttey are just. We
want q peace that il just, not vindic-
tive. Every clause and every term
| in the conditions must be justified.
Above all, we want to protect the fu-
ture against a repetition of the hor-
rors of this war"
| Criticizes Press Attacks.
The premier said he was going back
| to Paris if the house wanted him to
| 20. Whoever went, he declared, must
have the full confidence of the parlia-
ment and carry out his pledges to
the utmost Of his power and convtc-
ton.
The premier sharply criticized GER
tain newspaper attacks that had been
made in connection with the peace
conference, saying:
when this kind of a disease is
carried to the point Of sowing dissen'
ton between greater allies whose
unity is essential for the peace Of the
world, when an attempt Is made to
make France distrust Great Britain,
France to hate America, and America
to dislike France and Italy, not even
that kind of a disease is justification
for so black crime against hui
manity."
Face Great Problems.
No conference in history, said the
premier, had been faced with PROB
lens Of such variety. complexity. mag.
nitude and gravity. The congress OF
Vienna, which was the nearest ap'
proach to it, took eleven months for
it's work, but that congress, Mr.. Lloyd
George pointed out, sank into insigni'
ficance as compared with what had
been settled by this conference.
The time spent by the peace con-
ference in framing the league Of ma
tons plan saved time instead of
wasting it, Mr.. Lloyd George declared,
as the league would provide means OF
adjustment of possible errors.
II would rather leave Russia Boil
shevik until they see their way out
of it, rather than see Great Britain
landed in bankruptcy" was one of
the premier's declarations.
Mr.. Lloyd George said that it was
his earnest conviction that military
Intervention in Russia would be the
greatest act Of stupidity. The pre-
mier said reliable information shows
| that while the Bolshevik force was
apparently growing, Bolshevism itself
was gradually waning-breaking down
before the relentless force of economic
| facts.