LABOUR AND WAR
SOLUTION BY NEGOTIATION
DAEDANELLES A WORLD
QUESTION.
('AUSTRALIAN ■ NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, 21st September. An • official communique states that a deputation from the General Council of Trades Unions met Mr. Lloyd George, Sir Robert Home, and Sir L. Worthington Evans at Downing Street. Mr. Ben Tillett, Miss Bondfteld, and Mr. J. H. Thomas expressed the council's viewß' on the Near Eastern situation, and Mr. Lloyd George replied. It is •unofficially stated that the. Labour leaders expressed the opinion that the Dardanelles should be kept neutral, but that this was a world matter, not a question for the British nation alone. Moreover, the presence of the Allied forces on the Asiatic side of the Straits was indefensible. A solution of the problem could be obtained by negotiation. ■
It is understood that Mr. Lloyd George assured the deputation that the Government was as anxious as they were to maintain peace, and lie believed a settjemont would be secured.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 73, 23 September 1922, Page 7
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160LABOUR AND WAR Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 73, 23 September 1922, Page 7
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