BRITISH PARLIAMENT

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 272, 19 November 1919, Page 5

BRITISH PARLIAMENT

■DEBATE ON RUSSIAN. POLICY.

GRAVITY OF INTERNATIONAL •SITUATION.

[Press Association.]

(Aus. and N.Z. Assn. and Renter (Received Nov. 19,-0.5 a.m.) .„ -LONDON, Nov. 18.

In.the House of Commons, in opening the debate'on the> Russian policy. Sir Donald Maclean ..urged that Russia should be left to work out her own-salvation. He;'declared that the policy of intervention had failed, and that'the Bolsheviks were-• stronger than* ever. He also expressed the opinion that a spirit of resentment over foreign interference was awaken, ing in Russia, and the policy should be idevised accordingly. He* emphasised the point that the :.Empire's future in India arid'the Rastidependeid largely on whether Britain was able to pursue her mission there , peacefully. Lord Robert Cecil said ' that it would be f^difficult to exaggerate the gravity .of the international situation 'iti Europe at the present time. The reservations of .the United States ■ Senate, .which hdd been provisionally accepted, were so extensile as almost to amount to the United States' revpiidiation of the Covenant, which also meant repudiation of the Peace ■ Treaty. The position was of the gravest character, but whatever happened the League must continue, even though the United States decid--ed. not.to. participate.