The Prime Minister returned from Paris to address the House
of Commons before it adjourned on Wednesday week for the Easter holidays,and enjoyed one of his customary Parliamentary successes. He defended the Peace Conference against the charge of dilatoriness in its gigantic task. " I am doubtful," he said, " whether any body of men with a difficult task have worked under greater difficulties, stones crackling on the roof and crashing through the windows, and sometimes wild men screaming through the keyholes." The new small States presented great difficulties which must be faced, because the war arose out of quarrels for small States. As for Russia, there was no question of recognizing the Bolsheviks. But the Allies would not try to occupy Russia. " I would rather leave Russia Bolshevik till she sees her way out of it," said Mr. Lloyd George, " than see Britain bankrupt." The Allied policy was to help the friendly nations bordering on Russia to resist Bolshevik in- vasions and to arm the patriotic Russian forces opposing the Bolsheviks.
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