Evening star., 1939-07-23
Chamberlain Is Trying to Kill
Soviet Pact, Says Lloyd George
Delays Seen as Calculated to Get Him Out of
Pledge to Poles Which He Didn't Mean;
Appeasement Again Is Aim
By David Lloyd GEORGE
By David Lloyd George.

of mutual assistance and Of q military
convention, but haggled about the Baltic
states.
The Soviet government replied in less
than half the time taken by the British
government in their last note. Ulti-
mately the British government decided
to send foreign Office clerk to negotiate
with the most powerful military govern
ment of the world whose aid they had
sought in an emergency.
He has been hanging about Moscow
now for over month, chaffering about
minor details, but making no real prog
ress. Now there seems to be something
in the nature of complete deadlock.
Meanwhile. Danzig is being slowly but
very surely assimilated into the Reich
and will form as essential part of its
system as the city of Hamburg. Then all
the bombast about never surrendering
Polish rights in Danzig will look too RI
diculous for any one to fight about.
Perhaps that may account for the
delay in the negotiations. 1t is calcu-
lated procrastination to enable Mr..
Chamberlain to get out of another
pledge he inconsiderately gave as way
out of temporary embarrassment.
Appeasement Once More.
His mind is once more on appease-
ment. But is he more likely to reach it
by this process than by the betrayal Of
Czecho-S -Slovakia? Herr Hitler will not
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in the Baltic Sea. He will insist on its
being definitely attached to the soil of
the Fatherland.
The next move will then follow-a
tortuous but purposeful maneuver to
seize the Corridor.
Surrender is the wrong road to ap-
peasement. 1t is a path that leads in
the opposite direction. 1t strengthens
the hold of Hitler upon the German
people. He has demonstrated to them
again and again that his methods lead
to .bloodless victory. He has aggran-
dized the Fatherland more than Fred
erick the Great ever did and that with
out the loss of single German life.
Why did not the Prime Minister or
Lord Halifax proceed Immediately to
Moscow to clear up the details as soon
as Russia manifested her readiness to
enter into military alliance with the
western democracies for the restraint OF
the aggressors?
Lord Halifax visited Goering. Cham
berlain flew into the Fuehrer's arms
three times in succession. He went
especially to Rome to embrace Mussolini
and to present him with oficial recogni-
ton Of the conquest of Abyssinia and
practically to tell him that we would
not bother him about his invasion OF
Spain.
Why send a foreign Office bureaucrat
to represent us in an infinitely more
powerful country which was offering to
come to our aid?
There is only one answer Mr.. Neville
Chamberlain, Lord Halifax and Sir John
Simon do not want any association with
Russia. If they do not, they ought not
to have dallied with her and, above all.
they ought not to have insulted her with
the glaring contrast between the stand
ing Of the emissaries we dispatch to
transact business with her and those we
had already dispatched to confer with
Hitler and Mussolini We may drive her
into hostility which would suit the
dictators but would be fatal to the en-
pires of France and Britain.
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