Evening star., 1923-11-03
By the Associated Press.

toward nome, leaVlng beh1nQ MIN a
final plea for the United States not
to be too hard on Europe, but to
| drive home to that stricken continent
| the conviction that right is supreme
| over force
| In his last speech after a tour OF
| the United States and Canada, de.
/; livered in the crowded Metropolitan
| Opera House, the wartime premier
of Great Britain warned that, within
this generation. civilization was
| doomed to catastrophe such as
history has never recorded unless the
| United States and the British elm.
pire' together stamped out the belief
that force alone rules the world.
Standing on the spot where, a year
| ago, Georges Clemenceau, premier OF
| France during the great war, ha6
urged, this country not to neglect
her postwar duties and had warned
of another rise of German militarism
Mr.. Lloyd George said:
France, at the present moment, Is
committed to holding the wolf by
the ear. She cannot let go. but ulti'
mately 1t may tear and rend her.
II heard yesterday from a mar
who had just returned from Germany
| who met one of the officers who hao
sailles to break up the cannon and
| the machine guns and the torpedoes
| of Germany.
| Wanted to Smash Guns.
| HE said up to the last year, the
| German workmen, wherever he wenl
! to the workshops and arsenals, USED
to help him to destroy these guns, and
@ n ri
These are the things that brought
ruin to our country
Now. he says, there is change
| They say: We cannot trust justice
| We cannot trust treaties. We can
not trust the words of great nations
! Force is the only thing that rules
| the world
| Unless you stamp out that con-
viction civilization is doomed on this
earth"
| Particularly did the doughty little
Welshman, speaking as private citi-
zen and not in "collusion with Lord
! Curzon," plead with America to guar
| antee the future of Secretary Hughes
proposal to cut the reparations tan
| gle with an international commission
| There are two principles which are
| constantly dinned into the ear of the
| golfer which 1 would apply to Mr.
| Secretary Hughes proposal" he said
| The first is follow through The
l
'Keep Out of the Rough"
| 1T might get lost. You are play
ing in rough country, full of bEnkers
| some who might try to get the ball
| into the rough, and, once it is there
they might even substitute another
/ Follow through. Keep your eye
| And if you do that I believe this
| great play will be won.
Europe will be better for it.
America will be better for it.
The world is better because Amer
| lea at one moment took an interes,
| Its own frontiers. The world will be
better for 1T tomorrow when 1t knows
| that the interest of American in hu-
man right has not weakened"
"Those who make war, whether
| they are individuals or nations. can
| not escape responsibility for the
peace" he said.
And again, "who smashed Ger
| many? Who smashed Austria? Who
created the impotence which makes
| if you had asked it on Armistice day
we all would have gently limited that
| it was really done by us.
I'VE were all responsible for the
victory. Each contributed his part
| Each did something toward shatter-
! ing the fabric, and we have got our
| responsibility for what follows"
| "MilliOns Under Wreckage."
| And still again, But still they say
| to US in Britain and they say to you
here: Keep clear of the wreckage.
Yes, but there are millions under
| meath. There is scriptural precept
for it. Great nations cannot say Am
| my brothers keeper?"
For the fourth time Mr.. Lloyd
George touched on the theme OF
Americas responsibility when he said
The commission of trusteeship for
kings; it does not come from rulers
or princes; it does not come from
senates or parliaments. 1t comes
from on high. That commission is
ed to the invisible message in 1917
and we had already done so. But the
commission is not fulfilled. The work
is only half done. If it is not dis
charged full-fully-civilizat is
doomed within this generation to a
| catastrophe such as the world has
never seen.
Three times Mr.. Lloyd George re-
peated the prayer, Don't be hard on
Europe" and at one time in his address
he asserted solemnly:
Vengeance is unbalanced. Every vim
dictive man or woman is partly insane.
Text of His Address.
II have travelled" he said, "some
thousands of miles in Canada and in
the United States of America, and nv
first, and 1 think my deepest, impression
is the vastness of these two great coun-
tries, countries of infinite resources and
! OF endless possibilities.
L came here to address eight meet
lngs-1 believe this is my SEVENTEEN
II Is not In mortal man to deliver
seventy speeches without saying some
thing for which he is sorry If I have
said 4nVfhinp 80
numerous speeches that has given Of
tense to any one. that has transgressed
| any OF your party controversies-well,
please put 1t down to my ignorance and
pass 1T over
j Il did not willingly trespass. came on
no mission, but, being asked to speak, I
nave spoken frankly. 1 have spoken
Wna1 l DeIleVe. l have seen a Sugges-
ton that 1 was in collusion with Lord
GurZon In something which / said.
wen, haven't the honor of having
any consultation or communication or
previous arrangement with Lord Cur
zon. am a member of no government.
1 am simply a private citizen. But in
the things l have said had a certain
sense OF personal responsibilities, having
! regard to the part which 1 had playei
IN the war and in the making of the
peace. VI ''ie
I'VE have all had our responsible
lty. During the war I stood for the
triumphant end " :"
The moment the war was over T
equally stood for ruthless prosecu-
tion of peace to an even more rlorions
end. Those who make war, whether
tney are individuals or nations, can
peace. eAe
Europe is in a deplorabIe condi-
ton. Whose Is the responsibility?
Some say it is the treaty of Yer.
sailles. Well, I am not here to defend
the treaty of Versailles, am Quite
willing on an appropriate occasion
to do so and to say that it was the
best treaty that could be neeotiated