Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-11 | Page 3 | Britons Oppose Pact with Reds

BRITONS OPPOSE PACT WITH REDS Lloyd George Hint Provokes Pro-vokes Storm of Dissent in London. LONDON, Xov. 10. (By the Associated Press.) Premier Dloyd George's hint in his Guildhall speech Saturday night of an attempt to negotiate peace with the Bolsheviki in Russia has created a stir here. The anti-Bolshevik press is indignant indig-nant over the suggestion. The Daily Mail scouts the idea as "shaking "shak-ing hands with a murderer," and generally gen-erally denounces the suggestion, which, it says, caused great amazement in political politi-cal circles. The Telegraph and the Morning Morn-ing Post are also hostile to the proposition. proposi-tion. Referring to the portion of the speech dealing with the possibility of peace with Russia, the Chronicle, special champion of the premier, declares "it is not free from obscurity." "Some may see in it," the Chronicle continues, "a suggestion of returning to the Prinkipo policy; we do not, however, read in it quite that sense." The Daily News, which is antagonistic to the premier and strongly in "favor of making peace with the Bolsheviki, accuses ac-cuses Mr. Lloyd George of inconsistency and insincerity in al! his dealings with Russia. The newspaper contends that tiie terms which the soviet government is known to be willing to accept are essentially essen-tially reasonable. It declares a sincere attempt at-tempt at peace ought to be successful, though "if the Bolsheviki meet with military mili-tary successes they may be tempted to put the price of peace higher than they are putting it today." The determination of labor to oppose intervention in Russia has at last taught' tho premier that labor is more to be feared than a reactionary press, says the Herald, labor organ. The newspaper calls union labor to force the government to' make peace on the soviet terms. Some commentators remark on what they call the apparent discrepancy between be-tween Mr. Lloyd George's treatment of the Russian problem and the speech of Winston Spencer Churchill in the house of commons Wednesday in which the war minister demanded the fullest support of Admiral Kolchak and General Denekine. They contend that the two utterances are divergent in sense and spirit and asic which correctly represents the government's govern-ment's policy. The discoveries resulting from raids on soviet quarters in the United States are said by anti-Bolshevik papers to be proof of the danger of dealing with the Bolsheviki.