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Show WW LLOYD GEORGE'S STATEMENT. Lloyd George, most masterful of .English statesmen, once more has won over his critics. In an address in the t House of Commons on Wednesday, the premier explained the work of the peace conference, and had he been a' I representative from the United States,' returned to give an account of his I stewardship, he could not have spoken , more to the point. One of the stirring references in hi? I Speech nave us a qlose-up view of those who have been denouncing the) conference. "No bodv of men worked harder or ' I jin better harmony," said the premier than the peace conferees, and he j doubted whether any body of men ever worked under greater difficulties. "Stones aro clattering on the roof." declared Lloyd George, "and wild men aro screaming throueh the keyholes, while the enormous Issues depended upou them which required calm deliberation." delib-eration." Not a few of the stones thrown were hurled across the Atlantic by wilful United States senators, and among tho wild men could be classed Johnson of California and Reed of Missouri. Tho premier spoke of the efforts made to sow dissensions, distrust and suspicion, and he declared that tho attempts at-tempts had been failures as harmony ( had prevailed, and mutual regard was constantly in evidence. Lloyd George has met with the samn nagging, rarnine criticism which pur sued the American delegates across the ocean and sought to discredit all their work. oo |