New Ulm review., 1922-11-08
The Fall Of Lloyd George.

The F'aW ct Lloyd George.
Lloyd George LOST the premiership
of Great Britain over the Turkish
imbroglio. After riding Ill waves for
six years he has gone down becarse he
was too anxious to plunge the British
nation into another war. He is now
engaged in trying to stage comeback
at the general elections which will be
held this month. And while he is an
unparalleled campaigner it is exceed
ingly doubtful whe ther he will be
successful.
His downfall was brought about by
the Conservative party withdrawing
it's support from the Coalition govern
ment. Andrew Bcnar Law, leader Of
the Conservatives, informed his fol-
lowers that the nation had lost con-
fidence in Lloyd George. Mr.. Law is
the new premier.
II the facts about the Turkish affair
are as stated in the Nesv Republic by
Arnold J. Toynbee, a member of the
Middle Eastern section of the British
delegation at the Peace conference
Lloyd George was almost successful in
bringing on War. The account cen
tains interesting side lights on how the
high game of diplomacy is played. T
MIR. Toynbee declares that the Tur-
kish question could not be settled at
the Paris Peace conference tecause
England and France began to quarrel
wherever it was touched. Pending it's
settlement Lloyd George wanted non
British Army to hold the Turk down
because the British forces in the East
were c,s-rocing to be dez1.obilized.
Venizelos offered him the services OF
the Greek army, provided that Greek
territorial claims to Asia Miner wei
granted. The assent of F.ancc was
purchased by the dispatch ef two Greek
divisions to Odessa, to serve the mis-
guided French policy Of military in
tervention against the Bolshevists.
The Greek army which was to watch
The Turks for Britain landed At smyr-
ma. The excesses practiced at Smyrna
galvanized the Turks into action, and
created d new militant Nationalist
movement. The fate of the East was
committed to new war and that war
after. dragging along for three years
;uddeply burst forth in world impor-
tance with the Turkish defeat cf the
Greeks.
Before laun ching it's offensive in
August, Ms. Toynbee assrts chat the
Angora government sent Fethy Bey,
It's minister of the Interior to London,
n fuAl effort t. reach an understand
ing with Great Britain. Fethy was
empowered to offer the de:nilitarization
md naturalization sf an adequate zone
on either side of the Dardanelles as
we'll as the Bosphorus.. But in place
OF embracing this opportunity to come
20 a satisfactory settlement with the
Turk, Lloyd George refused to meet
Fethy Bey and he was aot given an
audience by any member of the Br-
;ish government. Fethy's rebuff and
departure from London were the sig
nal for the Turkish advance, Mr.. Town
bee declares.
After the Turks had routed the
Greeks and were approaching Constan-
,inople, the Angora government again
announced that its peace tellns were
The same as before. But Lloyd George
in manifesto to the colonies suppressed
,he vital point that the proffered peace
erns actually included freedom of The
str Its. Instead, he made it appear
hat the next objective Of the Ken alist.
army was to seize the Straits and close
them by force when he had no var
ant for implying any thing Of the kind,
out had the best Information to the
contrary.
( He made the freedom of the Straits
IN issue far another war when it was,
t an issue. He dispatched the
British fleet to the Dardanelles, sound. !.
ID the war trumpet and called upon
European Allies and the colonies to
I'D Britain in this new warfare for
civilization.
81 t the time has gone when any
one man can make war. France and
ITALY showed 40 enthusiasm. w. i.
Mckenzie King, Canadian pnmier,
declared that Canada must have more
!!s,ts before che could act, The Bri-