Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-11
.LLOYD-CE0RCE IS STILL HOPEFUL OF PEACE, HE STATES Polish Attack Was Not Justi-
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 AN OPEN CLASH Premier Says Sole Purpose is to Se- cure Peace on Basis to Preserve An Ethnographical Free Poland

London, Aug. 1O-"I am still hope ful of peace," were the openins words of Premier Lloyd Georges an nouncement in the house of com mons today with regard to the Rus
 so-Polish crisis.
 The house was crowded and the
 tension was high in anticipation o1 the premier's "peace or war" state ment As he entered he was warmly chered.
 M. Krassin and Kameneff of the Russian soviet delegation here, were in the strangers gallery.
 MT. Lloyd George declared the Pc. fish attack was not justified in the opinion of the British government and that the soviet government in conditions of peace, was entitled to take in account the fact that the at- tack made by the Poles upon Rus sia and that these attacks were de- livered despite the warnings of the allies to Poland.
 The siviet, he declared, was entit- led to demand such guarantees as would be enacted by any power against an repetition of attacks of that kind. What was challenged, he said, was that nothing justifies retaliation reprisals or punishment which goes to the extent of wiping out national existence. The premier declared that the sole purpose of the allied policy was to secure peace on basis of independence for the ethnographical Poland. He said the Hythe conference agreed that the al lies should advise Poland to endeav- or to negotiate an armistice and make peace as long as such inde- pendence was recognized. That rec ommendation has been forwarded to the soviet gocernment, the premier stated
 He pointed out the allies suggest ed to the soviet that they declare a truce Monday at midnight but this was not accepted in view of the Minsk meeting set for Wednesday, He declared there had been great and suspicious delays in coming 70 a decision of an armistice. He could not imagine. the premier said, why, if there had been real desire to have an armistice and negotiate peace, the soviet government would not have fixed date at the latest a week or ten days ago for the pur- pose.
 The premier continued:
 "We are not going to have a quar- rel or propose to engage this coun- try in a dispute whether it means much or little difference between Monday or Wednesday, and there the allies are agreed"
 Continuing his outline of the de- cisions reached at the Hythe confer ence. MT. Lloyd George said:
 eff they negotiate an agreement at Minsk we do not propose to inter vene to upset and arrangement which is acceptabel to the Poles. It is their affair. I sincerely trust that it will mean peace, but supposing it did not? We have got to face that"
 eff the Minsk conference fails be- cause the Poles refused to accept terms which they the soviet were entitled to exact, having regard the way in which the conflict start ed and to the Polish military condi- tion then the allies could not sup port Poland, the premier declared. However, if the bolshevik insisted upon terms threatening the inde- pendence of Poland, then a different situation would arise."
 Outlinig the action the allies had decided to take if necessary the pre- mier said no action would be taken except to support the struggle for Poland's independence. No allied troops would be sent to Poland, he declared, it would not be necessary, he said, if the Polish resources were thoroughly organized and we'll di- rected.
 The next action, continued the premier, would be to put economic pressure upon Soviet Russia, either by naval action or international &C., tion. Substantial stores he said, were available in that quarter of the world which the allies would feel obliged to send to Poland.
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