Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-19
ATTITUDE TOWARD
RUSSIA DIVIDES
BRITISH LEADE RS
Winston Churchill Would De-
Stoy BolsheviSm; Lloyd
George Says This Would
Solidify the People of Russia

nv MoNNlNS JSbNNAl SPECIAL LEASED
Paris, Jan, is (by the Associated
/ Press. THE communication concern
| ing the bolsheVist menace recently is
sued by the war office at London was
| in consequence of departmental pol-
icy divergent from that of Premier
/ Lloyd George. the Associated Press is
informed upon first authority. Win
ston Spencer Churchill, the British
| secretary for war, has himself told
Mr.. Lloyd George that he did not
know about the issuance of the COM
munieation, but that he believed the
prime minister underestimate the
danger from the spread of armed boil
sheVism
1t has been explained to the prime
minister that the war office associates
of Mr., Churchill, knowing how strong
~ he felt on the subject of bolsheviSm,
undertook to influence public opinion
in the direction of their chiefs con-
victions.
If Mr.. Churchill's views were ac-
cepted the allies would invade Russia
for the purpose of destroying bolshe-
vism in its home, while Mr.. Lloyd
Georges view is that such action
would amount to war against soviet
Russia and would only solidify the
Russian people.
Mr.. Lloyd George compares the sit
uation respecting Russia today with
that of France after 1893 to the end
Of the century. Military pressure from
without, The premier affirms, united
the French people behind the revolu-
tionary government, so that they
were able not only to make headway
against foreign enemies, but win VIC
tories. That is precisely what Europe
might see, he holds, if Mr. Churchill's
point Of view were allowed to influ-
ence the British and French cabinets.
Hence, Mr. Lloyd George on the
very day the communication was is
sued by the British war office, insisted
upon the supreme council partially
raising the blockade against Russia,
the allied prime ministers intending
to show indirect acceptance of the
changed conditions in Russia by per-
hitting free trade in food, clothing
and other non-military commodities
without diplomatic relations.
These trade arrangements are not
yet clearly defined. They were made
through representatives of the Rus
sian cooperative societies in Paris,
who say they have been informed that
the soviet government equally counte-
nances trade without regard to politi- |
cal relationship
The italians take no part In the mil I
itary conferences. Field Marshal Foch |
and Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson |
form the interallied military council |
50 far as consideration of middle and I
near eastern questions are concerned. |
They met yesterday and today and !
their deliberations, the Associated |
Press is informed have had more to |
do with restraining Polish military |
operations against Russia than with !
snpporting those operations from ,
abroad.
The prime ministers took up the !
Polish question seriously Thursday !
and Friday. Their information Was |
that the Polish armies have during |
recent weeks occupied considerable |
beyond the Polish boundaries and be-
longing properly to Russia. The prime !
warned the Polish govern
ment that they could not support a |
policy of expansion. They requested |
Fadek, the Polish foreign minister, |
now in Paris, to advise Poland to |
evacuate and abandon Russian occu-
pied territories and thus avoid giving |
cause for attack by the soviet govern
mont
This, M. Padek refused to do.
One of the principal military and
political problems not yet determined |
by the supreme council and its mill
tary advisers is what should be be
done If the soviet forces drive the
Poles from the occupied territories
and then move on them into Poland.
The prime ministers admit they are |
much embarrassed by the Polish gov
arnments refusal to retire with the
boundaries fixed by the supreme
council holding, instead. those based |
on historical claims which are deemed |
vague by the council