WAR NIGHTMARE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18254, 24 November 1933, Page 2

WAR NIGHTMARE

LLOYD GEORGE’S PLAINT PREVENTION OF CARNAGE LONDON, Nov. 12. “This need never have happened!” was the exclamation of Mr. Lloyd George at the end of the two-minute Armistice Day silence, to the special representative of the Sunday Dispatch who attended the observance at Churt. Mr. Lloyd George looked young and alert, but when the maroon sounded the warning for silence he suddenly ageu and wilted, his face expressing his thoughts. He said to the Sunday Dispatch representative: “It seems incredible that I lived in such a horrible nightmare, but I am reliving it as 1 write my memoirs. “I think ot the wonderful spirit of the soldiers, who cheerfully went through hell. They must have horrors stamped on their minds, but they try to forget the evil things arid recall their comrades and the few good times they had* “I believe that strong men like Bismarck, Disraeli, Palmerston, and Clemenceau could have prevented the war, but Lord Grey, Bethmann-Hollweg, the Kaiser, and the Tsar were all weak.

“I do not know whether I could have averted the carnage. One cannot stop when travelling at top speed in a motor car without four-wheel brakes. We had no four-wheel brakes in 1914. “I do not believe that Britain’s virility is sapped, but we must keep out of entanglements, although we cannot stand wholly aloof from either European or world affairs.”