PREMIER’S SPEECH CRITICISED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2495, 19 October 1922, Page 1

PREMIER’S SPEECH CRITICISED.

RESENTMENT IN FRANCE. PARIS. Oct. 16. There is much comment on Mr George's siieecli. He is accused of relating historv in bis own fashion for Ins own pit - poses." There is resentment against e accusation that the trench almndom-d the British. His words arc regarded by Le Journal as more wounding than any u. cl enemy countries directed against I lance during the war. ~ Le Temps, in a violent attack, says, ll pleases him to appear amid the lightning of European storms. Tho paper accuses Mr Lloyd George of seeking ''lection advantages at the expense ot European peace. M "Franklin and M. Bouillon, whose actions at the Near East discussions have been criticised in British scmi-oiheia circles, „avs: “We will reply to Mr Lloyd George, and the world will be surpiisocl when it knows exactly what happened. Public opinion resents Mr Lloyd George’s references at Manchester to inc French agreement to protect the neutral zone, which France interprets as an allegation that France broke her void. M. Tardieu describes the speech as a firebrand calculated to start a conflict. In the mouth of the Prime Minister there are words of conflict unheard of between London and Paris for 25 years.’—A. and N.Z. cable.