Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-17
PEACE IS NEAR,
ASSERTION Of
LLOYD GEORGE
Continued from Page One,

tons he made during the general
election campaign. The declaration
regarding making Germany. pay, he
declared, had been concurred in by
all the party leaders.
Pledges Fulfilled.
The premier said he might be
to the House of Commons to ask
release for any pledge Re had given.
II am here to say that every
pledge we have given is incor-
porated in the demands put forward
by the allies" he asserted. I'VE
stand by them because we believe
they are just. We want peace
that is just, not vindictive. We want
stern peace, because the occasion
demands it, but it must be designed
not to crafty vengeance, but to
vindicate justice. Every clause and
every term in the conditions must
be justified. Above all. we want to
protect the future against repeti-
ton of the horrors of this war.
The premier said he was going
back to Paris if the house wanted
him to go. Whoever went, he de-
clared, must have the full con-
fidence of the parliament and carry
out his pledges to the utmost of his
power and conviction,
The premier said he had not come
asked why he supported Admiral
Kolchak and General Denikine. He
would tell the house frankly, he
said, When the treaty Of Brest-
Litovsk was signed, he explained,
large parts of Russia had had no
hand in the shameful act and were
in revolt against the government
which signed it.
Supported Blockade.
"They raised arms at our instiga-
ton and largely at our expense" he
added, "but that was absolutely
sound military policy, because with
out those organizations the Ger
mans would have secured all the
resources which would have en-
abled them to break the blockade
"Bolshevism," continued the pre-
mier, had threatened to impress By
force of arms its domination over
those populations which had re-
volted against it and it would have
been an act thoroughly unworthy of
any great land to say to those pop
ulations, We are exceedingly
obliged to you; you have served
your purpose and we need you no
longer and have left them to the
bolshevik troops. 1t is our duty,
since we asked them to take this
step, to promise them support. We
are not sending troops, because
every Russian thought that if Rus
STA were to be redeemed she must
be redeemed by her own sons, and
they asked that they be supplied
with the necessary arms.
Explains Policy.
The premier said he did not con-
slider that this was departure from
the fundamental policy of Great
Britain of not interfering in the in
ternal affairs of any land. He con-
tinued:
Our policy is to arrest the flood
of the present forcible eruption of
bolshevism into allied lands and for
that reason we are organizing all the
forces in allied countries bordering
| on Russian territory from the Black
sea to the Baltic. If the bolsheviki
attack any of our allies it is our
business to defend them.
This is our policy, but we want
peace in Russia. The world will not
be passive as long as Russia is torn
and rent by civil war.
at is our policy to make peace
among the warning nations not by
recognizing one party, but by Undue
ing them to come together with
view to setting up some authority
in Russia which would be acceptable
to the whole Russian people and that
the allies could recognize as their
government" He did not despair
he said, of solution being found.
Russia Emerging.
After declaring that reliable in
formation showed that although the