SUPPRESSION OF BOLSHEVISM

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 122, 24 May 1920, Page 7

SUPPRESSION OF BOLSHEVISM

BRITISH OFFICIAL VIEW

CREED OPPOSED TO HUMAN

NATURE,

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LONDON, 20th May.

In the course of an explanation to the House of Commons of the attitude of the British Government towards Russia and Poland, Mr. Bonar Law disclaimed any desire to make war on Russia. He maintained that the kind of Government which the Soviet profes?ed was contrary to human nature and could not last. The way to create a reasonable situation, in Russia, was to allow the Russians to work out their own salvation. It was by opening up trade, much more than by armaments," that the Bolshevik Government would be put down.:

Dealing with Poland, he 'said that the little ammunition which had been given to Poland as an ally was intended to enable the Poles to defend themselves against an attack by th Bolsheviks which was threatened in October, 1919, but Poland was told that Britain would not take the responsibility of advising jiea'te or war, although tin; opinion of the British Government was against, -war. ' Mr. Lloyd George, who was supported by the Cabinet, informed the Polish Foreign Minister that Britain did not desire to give Poland.the slightest encouragement to pursue a policy of war, because it would incur responsibilities' which could not be discharged. Mr. Lloyd George made it clear that the principal difficulty was that the Polish army had- advanced far beyond the racial boundaries, but said that if Poland made a real attempt at an equitable peace and the Bolsheviks refused to agree Britain was bound to a-ssist Poland.

Lord Robert Cecil complained that an Unparalleled opportunity of making the League of Nations a reality was lost in not. referring the Polish-Russian dispute to the League.