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Show RUSS ENTITLED I TO GUARANTEES I COMMONS TOLD I But Premier Declares Bolsheviki Bolshe-viki Must Not Destroy Polish Nation ATTACK UPON SOVIETS WRONG, HE ASSERTS Lloyd George Explains Sole Object Is to Get Peace With Borders Unchanged LONDON, Aug 10. (By The As-soclated As-soclated Press.) "I am still hopeful of peace," were the opening words ol Premier Lloyd George's announcct ment In the house of commons todaf with regard to the Ruo-rolish crisis. The house was crowded and the tension was high In anticipation of j the premier's - peace or war" statement. state-ment. Ag he entered he was warmly i hi e red. Mm Kra-ssin and Kameneff. of the Russian soviet delegation hero, were ! in the strangers' gallery. Mr Llujd Ceorge declared the Polish Po-lish attack vai not Justified in the opinion of the British government ) and that the soviet government, In ! any conditions of peace, was entitled ! to take into account the facts of the :n.ido by the Poles upon Rus- il , sla and that those attacks were delivered de-livered despite the warnings of the I allies 1 1 1 I '"land. I ENTITLED TO GUARANTEES, Ihe soviet, he declared, was entitled to demand such guarantees as would bo exacted by any power against a repetition of attacks of that kind. ') What vv.is challenged, he said, was I that nothing Justm. s retaliation, re-, re-, prlsal or punishment which goes to extent ol wiping out national ex-isience." ex-isience." B j Apart altogether from the moral right of any power to demand the ex- H : Unction ot another nation Is punish- ment fur the aggression of its gov -( eminent," Premier Lloyd George said I Europe has to be considered. The independence of Poland and its BX-; BX-; Kence us an independent nation is I an .scntial part or the structure of European peace Repartition of Po- laud would not merely bo a crime. It would be a peri! and we have tu consider both these, contingent 103 as a basis tor our policy." PI. 1 SOLE AIM. I The premier declared that the sole I purpose uf the allied policy was to se-cure se-cure peace on a basis ..1 independence tor ethnogra ihlcal Poland He said I the 11 the conference agreed that the I allies should advise Poland to n-I n-I deavoi to negotiate an urmistice and make peace as long sucn lndepend-ence lndepend-ence was recognized. That rocom-meudatlon rocom-meudatlon hai been lurwarded to the j soviet government, the premier state a; SUSP14 H)l DELAY. 1- pointed out that the utiles sug-gested sug-gested to tne soviet that they declaio a truce Munda at midnight but this was nut accepted in view ui Hie Minsk meeting set lor Wednesday. He doclar-ed doclar-ed theie had been great and suspicious delays in coming to a discussion uf un aimistice He could not imagine, the .i. iniei said, why, it there had been I a real desire to have an armistice and goilate peace, the soviet ,;overnmcni would not nave fixed a dute-at the lat-test lat-test 1 week or ten days ago for this puipose i h. premier continued W e are not going to have a quar-r. quar-r. I in- pi up.is..- u engage this coun-try coun-try Hi a ulspute whether it means fH much or little upon the difference between .Monday ui Wednesday, and the-ic the allies an agreed mi ST r i: worst. "If thev negotiate an agreement at .Minsk we do not propose to intervene to,' upset any arrangement winch is ceptable to the i'oit-s It is their affali 1 sincerely trust it will mean peace, but supposing It did not we have got (o face that." II tne Minsk failed because the Poles refused to accept terms which the soviet was entitled to exact, hav -ing regard to the- way in which the conflict and the I'olish military con-ditioUi con-ditioUi then the allies could not sup-port sup-port Poland, the premier declared However, if the Bolsheviki Instated upon ie m.s threatening the independence independ-ence of Roland then a difficult aitua-(ion aitua-(ion would arise The premier said no action would be taken except lo support the strug-'ic strug-'ic foi Poland's existence and lnde-pendence lnde-pendence No allied troops would be s nl to Poland, he declared, it would n. t bi n. vi -s i: . , he said. If the Polish resources were thoroughly organized and well elirected. ECONOMIC PRE8SURE. The next action, continued the ' lier would be to put economli f preasun upon soviet Russia, either by nav.il action or International action ac-tion Substantial stores, he says, were available in that quarter of the world which the allies would feel obliged to send to Roland. Replying to an interjection as to what the peisltlon of America would be, Mr Lloyd George- said' "We certainly are going to appeal to America. There Is, of course, the difficulty In America that up to tho present she has not ratified the treaty and that ihe treaty is the subject of conflict between the two great par- I ties. It is not In our power to se what view ihe American executlv would take. I am only Judging from the attitude of America at the pencr conference She was a strong protag- ( Continued on page six.) Russ Entitled to Guarantees, Commons Told (Continued from Page One.) onlst of Tollsh Independence. No man could rftive taken a more determined de-termined and zealous part In setting' up Polish independence than President Presi-dent Wilson, and I am certain that Whatever differences of opinion there may be in America with regard to! the league of nations, there would be no difference of opinion In their general gen-eral attitude toward Polish lndepend-1 tncc." NOT ATTACKING RUSSIA. The premier declared that up to! the present Great Britain was taking no steps to assist In any attack upon ' soviet Russia inside her own territory terri-tory since the British govornmcir.'s changed policy was announced. The premier declared that If the1 negotiations with soviet Russia had, broken down because of the Bolshevik Bolshe-vik attitudo and the allies had cut Russia off from the outside world, there would be an end to any trade negotiations. If they v. ant peace,'' he said, "theyi can get It, and the London conference proposal Waa Intended to establish I peace." |
