Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-11
FRENCH GENERAL OFFERED ]. COMMAND OF POLISH FORCES
Tender Made General Weygand Made By Polish Council of National Defense-For the Defense of War and Reorganization of the Army-Premier Lloyd George Tells the House of Commons That Polands In- tegrty is Essential to Europe-Bosheviki Are Closing in on Warsaw.

right of any Power to demand the ex.
 tinction of another nation as punish
 ment for the aggression of it's Govern
 ment," Premier Lloyd George said,
 Europe has been to be considered. The
 independence of Poland and its exist. ence as an independent nation is an es- sential part of the structure of European peace. Repartition of Poland would not
 merely be crime, it would be a peril. and we have to consider both these con-
 tlngencies as basis for our policy" The Premier declared that the sole
 purpose of the Allied policy was to se- cure peace on basis of independence
 for ethnographical Poland. He said the
 Hythe conference agreed that the Allies should advise Poland to endeavor to
 negotiate an arnlistice and make peace
 as long as such independence was recog- nized. That recommendation has been
 forwarded to the Soviet Government, the
 Premier stated.
 He pointed out that the Allies sug-
 gested to the Soviet that they declare
 ruce Monday a midnight, but this was not accepted, in view of the Minsk meet ing set for Wednesday.
 He asserted there had been great and suspicious delays in coming to discuss sion of an armitice. He could not imag- inc, the Premier aid, why. if there had
 
 tice and negotiate peace the Soviet Gov. ernment would not have fixed a date at the latest a week or ten days ago for the purpose.
 The Polish situation has given Great Britain very anxious days. bloody in this country wants to embark in anoth- CT war. Not only has England no sold- iers to send, but the whole country is tired of war and over-burdened wlh taxatio.
 Results of the Hythe conofersnce ara considered a compromise between ths British and French, as all theh decisious
 reached at recent conferences have been.
 Sundays proceedings were proclaimed by tn French to be a victory for the policy of Premier MNlerand. but yesterdays seem to have been success for Premier Lloyd George.
 .. The British Premier apparently had two policies for dealing with the pres ent situation. One is to arrange terms with the Bolsheviki of Russia, and the
 other is to help Germany get on her feet, both policies being antagonistic te
 what appears to be the French view. France wants the Allies to support Po- land by all possible means and sus- picion of any assistance to Germany is apparent. French newspapers have re-
 centely been outspoken in opposition to
 the policy of Lloyd George. The third important member of the alliance, Italy, was not represented at Hythe. but it is
 assured she is in entire accord with
 Lloyd George and has opened diplomatic relatios with Soviet Russia, although heI
 allies have refused to take a similar
 step.
 That MT. Lloyd Georges policy to-
 ward the Bolshevik will eventually tri.
 umph in this country seems assured bJ the strong attitude taken by labor
 There is no question that the labor lead.
 CTS are etirely in earnest and there Ii every indication they will be supported
 by the workers of Great Britain if they
 seek to enforce by general strike theiI
 demand that the country shall not bt
 committed to further war-like enter
 prises.