Mr Lloyd George on Serbia.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 13 October 1917, Page 4

Mr Lloyd George on Serbia.

ill- Lloyd George found time in the intervals of attending a conference with representatives of the Allies, to attend a luncheon given to Dr Pasiteh, by the Serbian Society of Great Britain Carly in August. The Prime Minister made, a speech which was no doubt specially framed so as to strengthen Serbia's confidence in the determination of the Allies to see her righted. "Serbia,'' he said, "is an idea to me. It was through the Serbian Prime Minister's action —and he is far too wise a man not to have known, its eftect, in the suffering to himself and his country —that.'the great challenge was accepted by ei vili.sution to the burburism of Prussia. - • • 1 am a believer in little I have the honour to belong to one myself. There is one thing about the Serbian nation which always touches nie a-s a Welshman. I believe in a nation which can sing about its defeats. The great event 111 the storv of Sorbin is not m triumph) but, a wreat defeat which submerged it in the deluge of Im'barism. And so right through lint .-entiiries until the dsiv of restoration came. If f may say so",it is almost what has happened in the'case of our little nation. A nation that can sing about its defeats and not l 0 s(» heart is a nation Avhich is immortal, and that, .in why Serbia will again emerge with victory .