BRITISH INTERVENTION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 20 June 1932, Page 2

BRITISH INTERVENTION

FATE OF CZAR AND FAMILY

LONDON, 9th June. In a book by Mrs Harold Knowling, daughter of Sir George Buchanan, former British Ambassador in Russia, just published, it is stated that the Russian Royal family could have been saved from massacre by the Bolsheviks by being given sanctuary in England, but that the British Labour party objected, and that the then Prime Minister, Mr Lloyd George, upheld the objection.

Mr Lloyd George told the “Evening News” political correspondent that he did not clearly remember the circumstances Mrs Knowling described, but if the question of allowing the Czar to come to Britain arose, lie probably did advise against it, because he was trying to persuade Kerensky to continue in the war on behalf "of the Allies. The Czar’s arrival fit England would have prejudiced the representations to Kerensky.

Mrs Knmyling’s book declares that her father was aware of the grave danger threatening the Czar and his family, and arranged to get them to Archangel, and thence to England. The plan had to lie abandoned on Mr Lloyd George’s representations that the Labour party would object to their coming to England.