BREAK WITH RUSSIA

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 May 1927, Page 8

BREAK WITH RUSSIA

A SCATHING ATTACK.

“WE’VE SHOT OUE LAST BOLT.”

.UK. LLOYD GEORGE IN FORM

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A scathing attack on the Russian break was made by Mr Lloyd George at the Liberal rally at Margate.

“There is only -one thing; now left: you cannot iscnd home their ambassador- —■ ]ie’,s gone; yon cannot irecall our ambassador —-he’* coming. The wires have been cut, between us. We've .shot our last bolt except the thunderbolt. What folly! What madness! A little more patience would have .saved ns. Diplomatic rupture with one of the greatest peoples in the world is /not the thing to throw caps in the air about; tit is rather a thing to bend our knees about. It is the most serious decision Britain has taken since August. 1914, yet Cabinet was not caßed together to decide whether the stop should Tie taken. “Rupture with 150 millions of the most formidable people on earth, was precipitatedlv decided on. Only those who know what Russia did in the war without arms and ammunition., going into action against the. greatest- artillery in the world, dying at the command of the Tsar, can realise what formidable people Russians are. Mr Lloyd George was proceeding to illustrate the resultant trade loss when a voice was heard : “Does trade- come before: honour?” , , ~ Mr Lloyd George: “No, but- wasn t honour- involved in 1923, 1925 and 1926? Wasn’t honour also .involved in 1927, when Earl Balfour, one of the most honourable men in the country, .said that although the trade agreement had been broken., it was not in the interests of the peace of the world that there should be a rupture with Russia.”