ESSENTIALS OF PEACE.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17420, 3 April 1922, Page 6

ESSENTIALS OF PEACE.

A SCRAP OF HISTORY. (JBj Cable—Preßs Association—Copjrirht.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Anociation.) (Received April 2nd, 5.5 p.m.) LONIX)N, April 1. Mr Sisley Hiddleston, the Paris correspondent of tliu "Westminster Gazette" explains that Mr Lloyd George gave him for publication in March, jyi9, the substance of the memorandum of the Peace Conference, which was published ,n a White Paper last week, conditional on his not publishing the source. Three hundred and seventy members of the House of Common* subsequently sent a telegram to Mr Lloyd George in Paris, expressing alarm at the views given in the "Westminster Gnsette" as emanating from the British Peace delegation, thereupon Mr Lloyd George denied that the statements possessed any authenticity. fA lengthy inoinsrandum, entitled "Some Considerations for the Peace Conference before 'hey finally draft their terms," which Mr Lloyd George circulated amongst the members of the Conference in March, 1919, states: "1* is comparatively easy to- patch up a peace which might last thirty years, but it is difficult to'draw up a peace which will not provoke a fresh struggle. History :ias clonic nstraled that a peac* hailed by a victorious nation as a triumph of'diplomatic skill and statesmanship hab proved in the long lun to be shortsighted and charged with danger to the" victor. "You may strip Germany of her colonies, reduce her army to ix mere police force, and he. - navy to that of a fifth-rate Power, but if she feels she has been unjustly treated she will eventually find a means of extracting retribution from her conquerors. • Arrogance, ail injustice displayed in the hour of triumph will never be forgotten nor Wo cannot both cripple Germany- and make her pay We must offer terms which a rc■potisibie Genn.an Government caa expect to carry out. The greatest donLier I sec is" that Germany may throir in her lot with the Bolsheviks. It is idle to jmpose a permanent 'imitation nn the armaments of Germany _ unless we ai": prepared to impose a limitation <m ourselves '']