The New York herald., 1920-01-23
BRITISH SPLIT.
OVER PREMIER'S
RUSSIAN POLICY
Lloyd George and Churchill at
Odds Over DealingsWith Z
Bolsheviki.
ONE WOULD NEGOTIATE
The Other Demands Crushing
of Reds and Peace by
Dictation.
WAY APPEAL TO COMMONS
Premier Not Expected to Put ANY
Policy in Motion Without
Consulting House.
Way APPEAL TO COMMONS
ny TRUMAN II. TALLEy.


LONDON. Observation-Disclosures over
Premier Lloyd Georges precise Russian
policy and the extent to which he has
committed Great Britain without consult
ing Parliament crystallized today into a
crop OF sensational newspaper revelation
and warnings over the trend Of events
That the Cabinet has definitely split on
the British policy in Russia and that
Premier Lloyd George and Winston S.
Churchill, Secretary Of State for War,
hold divergent opinions regarding peace
or war with tho Bolsheviki are the dec
larations of some Of London's newspap pers
This split may culminate disastrously for
the Coalition Ministry, the opposition
press, led by the Liberal Westminster
Gazette, asserts.
Meanwhile the non-intervention press,
led by the Daily Expr~ss. raises a cry
Of alarm at the imminence of England be-
ing committed to new military adven-
ture. cloaked in tine camouflage of re-
stricted trade relations with Russia.
The Westminster Gazette prints what it
declares to be an Inside story" of how
Mr.. Churchill, Walter II. Long, First Lord
of the Admiralty: Earl Beatty and Field
Marshal Sir Henry Wilson went to Paris,
not at Premier Lloyd Georges invitation
but on Mr.. Churchills personal initiative
not to assist in any interallied Russian de-
cision but to put spoke in the Premier
wheel before he surrendered outright to
pro-Bolshevist advice.
Definite Split Affirmed.
It declares that it is an open secret in
peace conference circles that Premier
Lloyd George and Mr.. Churchill have def
initely split and that the Premier opposes
nyeort of intervention in Russian affairs
preferring peace by eventual negotiations
while. on the other hand, Mr.. Churchill
demands measures to crush the Bolsheviki
desiring peace with them only by dictation
Thus, it is declared. the two central
figues in the coalition government are in
opposition one to the other, with Parlia-
ment destined to be the arbiter. not only OF
Great Britain's ultimate Russian policy
but, inferentially. of the coalitions sur
vival.
The opposition, which gleefuliy accepted
the Supreme Councils announcement OF
the opening of trade relations with Rus
sia as not only the best policy but as
proof that Premier Lloyd George had
finally returned. like the Prodigal Son. to
the Liberal camp. now is wrathful over
the news that any such peaceful move will
be accompanied by military guarantees
for Poland and the Caucasus on q scale
so vast that they will amount to gigantic
naval and military expedition.
Thus, by this "fifty-fifty" Russian
policy, which resembles the straddling
tactics which have characterized virtu-
ally every one of his important decisions,
Premier Lloyd George has los the Liberal
supporters who hastened to his aid week
ago, meanwhile failing to conciliate his
Conservative or Unionist critics.
II is not believed. however. that the
Premier would attempt to set any Russian
policy in r1otion until he consulted the
Commons, which will meet in three weeks
Therefore, Il Ia almost certain that the
world will not get at the truth OF what
the Allies intend doing In Russia until
then.
Attitude of Psrliament.
The statement now is being made or
every hand in London that, whatever Par
liament does. IL will not accept a hall
peace and half war policy, but will in
sist on either concluding an adequately
guaranteed peace with the Bolsheviki or
continuing both the commercial and the
military blockades. Every indication
seems to be that Parliament will adop,
the latter attitude, as the House of Com
mons Is overwhelmingly Tory.
The Daily Express demands that the
government Immediately explain or deny
statements that the Allies-and principally
England-intend to send hundreds of thou
sands of men into the new states, espe-
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