The Bismarck tribune., 1919-04-16
LLOYD GEORGE /!
( PRAISES WILSON
AND HIS STAND
English Premier in Address to
Parliament Points Out
Huge Task
ATTACKS ALL CRITICS
Russia Seething Volcano, He
Declares and Opposes
Intervention
ATTACKS ALL CRITICS

Intervention
London, April 16.-The allied repre-
sentatives in Paris have reached q
complete understanding on the great
fundamental principles which would
affect peace with Germany, Premier
| Lloyd George informed the house to-
| day.
The premier made a vigorous at
| tack upon those who had attempted
to SOW dissensiOn, distrust and sus-
! picion between the nations whose
! cordiality and good will toward one
another was essential" r
He could not conceive of q worse
crime at time when nothing would
save the world but keeping the ma
tions together, he said.
Not at Variance.
1T is not true that the United
States and Europe have been at var
lance" Lloyd George stated, declar-
ing no one could have treated more
sympathetically the problems OF Eu-
rope than President Wilson.
Then" he added, "there is the
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ment, but an experiment upon which
the whole peace Of the world hangs
the society of nations"
With almost every nation in the
world engaged in considering these
problems the premier said, the dele
gates were justified in taking some
time 70 rtheir work, as blunder
might precipitate a war, near or dis
tant.
Calm Deiibcration Necessary.
After his reference at this point to
what he characterized as 2 time-sav-
ing process in building up the league
of nations, he continued along this
line to point to the danger OF not al
lowing the conferaes the calm deliber-
alton they require.
1T is full of peril-peril for this
country and for all lands peril for
the people of the world" the premier
said. G af M
He believed the conference had sur
mounted its difficulties, but it was no
easy task. ,-
| Questions that had never been
heard of before the war had nearly
produced conflict between two of
the allied states, he continued, and
there were number of such ques-
tions, but, after all. he added. it was
qaurrels over small states that had
caused the war.
Question Complex.
The Russian question was complex.
One difficulty was that there was no
| Russia. There was an organization
controlling central Russia, but there
is none to say that it is even a de
facto government for the whole of
| Russia he said. Even If we could
under any circumstances recognize
the Bolsheviki we cam OF recognize
them as de facto government for all
of Russia. Russia is a seethtng vol
cano The most we can hope to do Is
! to assure protection for those resid
ing on it's uttermost slopes and to
seek to check the flow OF lava and to
prevent it's spread to other nations Of
the world
| Variety Of Problems.
No conference in history, the pre-
mier said, had been faced with prob
lens of such variety complexity, mag
nitude and gravity. The conference
at Vienna, the nearest approach to it.
took II months for it's work. But that
conference, Lloyd George pointed out,
sank into significance when its ac
complishments are compared with
that Of the present conference.
II would rather leave Russia Boil
shevik until they see their way out of
| it rather than see Great Britain land
ed in bankruptcy" was one OF the pre-
mier's declarations.
Act Of Stupidity.
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tion that military Intervention in Rus
sia would be an act of the greatest
stupidity. 1t is not the duty Of the
government to commit England to
gigantic enterprise to improve condi-
tions in Russia.
Russia is a country very easy to in
wade and very difficult to get out
Of"
The premier said he had advices
that Bolshevism was gradually wan
ing, breaking down before the reient-
less force of economic fact. Asked
whethed advances for peace had come
from the Russian government the pre-
/ mier said:
I'VE have had no approaches Of
any kind. None has been placed be-
fore the congress"
The premier said that his original
intention upon his return. was to
await the expected criticisms Of aim
self, but inquiry had dfvulged that
none were forthcoming. He said he
| was fully aware there was Z great
deal Of impatience in the world and
he intended to address himself to the
real. sincere honest impatlence eyt
dent in all circles.
Returning to paths Of psaco and re-
ducing armament, the prem1sr said
the forces of the country which hAd
kept Europe In aims for 70 pears
would be reduced to IN army Only ~
eQuate enough to police ~ cittas ard
protect her commerce, 1nefo w0ro
suggestions that there nagAt - war
recrudescence in Oermaay. TtAt v1s |