RUSSIA’S RETURN TO SANITY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3410, 14 February 1920, Page 7

RUSSIA’S RETURN TO SANITY.

WHAT IS THE BEST METHOD‘.7vA LONDON, Feb. 12. Mr Lloyd GOOI-go_. continuing his spovch in the .Hou.’~'o of Conlmons, said an a}tm'narivo solution was to make pout-5‘ with 2110 Bolsheviks, but obser\“a‘r'mn tznd oxpel'iollcL‘ must first domonStr:lte that Rnssm has dropped barbaric nrotlrods. and was governing on civilisml lines. He believed we could 1'0Si"'o1'o Ru.<;~:i-.175 sallity, not by force, but’ by trade and commerce, which had

u. sobering effect. He did not :Ippl':‘hend '3, Bolshevik invasion, beezlusethe_v \\’(,‘l‘." unable to organise :1. powerful army, and such a motive as plunderim: pl'ospem\ls pmvinees did not exist. N 0 Bolshevik force could invade the Middle East. There was nothing‘ Hl(‘_‘.’ eouhl get if '.he_\' did. What xvas 't}lere in the mountv.lins of Armenia, Tul'k(‘Stan, or even Mesopotamia. which Britain did not eont"o}‘? He expressed the opinion that ‘rl':i(lin;' would end the ferocity, rapine, and cruelties of the Bolshevik more surely than any other Ineiho'd.