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1. 1919.
RUSSIAN CHAOS AND THE if they come to pass, would be followed
ALLIES POLICY.
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DANGERS AND REMEDIES.
mother matter.
PRINCE AND HOUSING.. CONFERENCE WITH LABOUR.
PROMISE OF CO-OPERATION.
The Prince of Wales visited North
by the collapse" of Bolshevism as a politi cal power, and if Kolchak were she ret to reach Moscow it is he who would rule the land, at least for a while, not perhaps Cabinet nor with "any with his Ptration, but with me of party ada knowledge, experience, and character. Jay D. E. 2. DUON.]
Whether this stage would coincide with Lambeth, on May 28th and took the up- Would quainted with the dwelling aeration conditions is liussia is, so to say, the key stone of the the complete restoration of sand, stable portunity of Becoming personally, ac programme be drawn up with provided in this congested wrt of the borough. His Royal Highness, who re- arch of new Europe. Th. Allies then- seltes, through their Primers, Pave put object but the welfare of his cu reived an enthusiastic else, first won
Russia's welfare try And how far tiels proclaimed that no penes can inpatible with the status quo in Eastern to the Alford House for Boys, in Lambeth-
Europe!
and walk. From bey the Prine proceeded indignation Burnier deemed stable while Russia is a pry to oral reprobation were the sentiments Karl-place, St. Albas bildings, and anarchy. And he has but to gianer at aroused Rong the Allies by the infamous China-walk and was desuplot for soc
of Brest Litovsk It was justly time in visiting the dwellings and inter- Afterward, for the loathsome creation of a frenzieder two hours, he discussed, at a confer- But shortly afterwards the once with delegates from the both Entrate Governants themselves, when Central Labour Party, the housing con Iditions on the Pachet Cornwall Estate their turn came, wrought.. politient
Where Kennington, patchwork of variegated injustice
the present condition and the immediate thematised by all Entente Peoples as viewing the residents
prospers of the States which have been crvated, revived, or extended, to perceive | people. - the "propriety of thegyiparison and the eventy of its rollary. The danger which the Allies redoubt from, Russia's nurul plight is that Germany, owing to her many advantages, may obouin a pri- vilged position in that country, and ne it as a steppington. to material perity, military strength, and
Political She may accomplish this ds; she will achieve it e
against
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Brest Litorak treaty provided for
As a result of che gouferetice the Princes federal Slav State with provincial
agrad that in futuris schemes for housing Biers and a federal, Parliament, the sys tens substituted by the Allies consisted in on the state there shall be collaboration curving pp
Russia into an ever-increas between the Landeth Central Labour ing limber of independent States, some Party and the officials of the Duchy of of which cannot live without Russian Cornwalk that the thing the former goodwill, and debarring the inhabitants shall asked and considered that new from a faire in the matter, and creating horses to be erected shall be larger than permanent agency for foreign interven; the old if possible that in all building.
The Russians were not even asked contracts the trules anion wages and con tion. to say in formally what they thought or Editions clause shall be insert and that felt abg it.
teonsideration shall be give to
the Allies unwittingly help her. It is no exaggeration to say that this danger, as well as the Bolshevik scourge, was fostered. if not created by the Allied Governments.
It was in their power, if
Nobody acquainted with Eusian posal that a Buchy nf townwall Works I was in their interest, and therefore it was als their duty is gave their ex ally from scholy imagines that the feelings of Department to carry out all repair, and Bolshevist, hut they lacked the night, this high-souled puple can be transform building be catablished The Prize also, of the requisit willed by gift of fod, money, or munitions.promised to visit privately the relien"
The pell throws over the ill-fated Aus sites and houses is the estate.
Mr. W. Lankyer, president of the nu beth Central Labour parts, said they were evaseinas-bas tits the Royal-family- the workers lived, but they were also con- rally knew of the condition, aufer which scious that the Royal fans desired to do their best for the people of England. and especially those on the Duchy of Cari- sal estate a Kennington. The speaker went on to point out that on the occasion of the recent Royal visit to Kennington a cumber of houses which were endy were by curtains being put us at the windows. made to appear as if they were benanted:
and were the bent niy them to saveins, who have it is believed, silenced 1
power. It was Russia Frum German machinations by
order promptings of racial instinct friendly policy he striking out a fearlessly
to listen to the soft words. and and requiring Fer for her priceless co
conditioned offerings
kirttous of the and hernie sacrifices with eff- help in her hour of nerd. Todas tempter, will take no hold on the Stas idealist.. How little likely Russians are
nd they are striving
good this le make eglect by erecting a paper,
to barter ideal boons for material wall between The plan is vantages may be gathered from an inci- dent worth noting that occurred in the like must of the Allied plasmar
months of April and May, when the fall The Teutons shall be compelled to disin terest themselves in the affairs of their of the capital was expected. The one for their success against Russian neighbours, with whose destinies their sex the capture of Petrograd.
This their
If that cits, which, despite ite of puliti "own are closely bound up. walt is admittedly frail. As a break,
tan character is still the centre of, water against the Truten ware it is us
rat Russia, could be wrested from the ten- less. Germany is still destined to placious grasp of Lenia and Trebsks, the the part of Russia's steward and major
Sma
GERSIAN PRAPE IN RUSSIA,
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I knew that the
The Prince of Wales houses were empty, thaughter.)
Mr. Peacock, secretary of the Duchy of friends of Cornwall, said the curtain, were put up
lever
Call of the Bolshevist Tarlets Was &
foregone
Kolchak
LUXURY OF A Marin
pressed every ver by the lambeth Borough Cornell, who How could it be otherwise Germany to set the machinery in motion for the complained of the dilapidated appearance and Russ eighbours. That economarch against Peter's city. And
cf-the road......... the mie relations were continuous, and the all helpers
the Finns were admittedly Allies have made then indispensable most efficacious, conversations were begun
ready Mr. Luckyer said there were a number Russia and tiermany are become inter-with their leaders. The Finns were dependent. The Truton will recognise to drive a bargain, but it must be a hard of houses on the state which had been in For the the Slay as an ally in economies and wil and lucrative one. They would marcha disgraceful state for sears.
Who will now
on Petrograd for dow
The principai past four years the workers had loyally pay himself politically.
was the can accepted the conditions, but they Now thwart or check this process! Russia condition they laid must live and therefore buy and sell and tive recognition of their complete inde thought that building operations should
which barter and
ambe commenced on the estate at one, thus pendence within frontiers w Can a parchment negotiate treats hinder or invalidate her dealings? not concerned to discass. The Kolchak providing labite for the unemployed Can
it prevent an admixture of politics Government was ready to treat with the They urged that more thoney should be Finnish Cabinet, as with de facto Govern expended yearly on the development of in eommercial arrangements! Can it
Finland's ment, and to recognise the conditions which favour
Prebe greatly, this mist
In Russia there are mil-status, but as they could not give lions of tiermane conversant with the they did not possess, their recognition
people, Language, laws and customs of the must. they explained, be, like their own Many of them have been settled there for authority, provisional. To this the Hel- The Fenerations. They are passionately at singfors Government demurred.
to their race and not unfriendly ons felt througa-
Russians remained firm, and the negotia-
to the
CO
Germany
then
RUSSIA AND THE LEAGUE.
the estate.
4)
The Prince remarked that, he was only receiving about half of what was paid to King Edward and King George, his father...
who Mr. Heron suggested that the estate
Mr. Heron said, that there are three" The
large warehouse in North Lambeth Iuli text contrs of their adoption.
of the commerce and industry
of furniture stored by people able to European provinces are largely in their
But if the imprevised arrangements, get housing accommodation, sume of it He bands and in those of their fellow-workers
dismemberment, entailing
which the belonging to cemobilised soldiers. the Jews. The business men of these tw Allies Enve imposed on Russia during her submitted for the consideration of the Racilities have their faces eser turned
They buy and sell cataleptic, trance ure re-opened, as they rince and his architect what they thought
will be as soon as she
she recovers conscious- should be the minimum requirements of there They obtain their credit in Par
wess and strength, what courer till events - Louse for a working man mid his family. lin, Dresden or Frankfurt. They act as
If she seeks to gather,under Reat should not exceed 108. sad, a week, commercial travellers, agents, brokers.
follow If wing for Russians and Germans. They are
Ther once more some of the peoples and all houses should have baths,
whose complete pendence the League The Prince: I fully realise that It continually guing and coming between the of Nations is now about to guarantee is a real luxury, for some people to have two countries. How are these myriads will that body respond to their appeal a bath.
fettered permanently kept from eking out, & livelihood in the future on and fly to their assistance? Russia,
Tines traced in the past the has not been consulted, will not be bound officials might collaborate with the local parchment
trunk
The Russians on theirs the rules of the League, and one need Labour party so that their suggestiona
not be a prophet to foretell the reluctance might be considered. side must alse and therefore buy and
of Western armies to wage another war The Princes I should be very happy seil Has the Conference or the league of Nations the right or power to dictate in order to prevent Karelia of which for your collaboratica in a consultative
some of the plenipotentiaries may have capacity. them the persons or the nations with heard as little as of Feschen-from re- whoir alone they may have dealings &
Mrs. Lockyer, on behalf of the Women, maining Russian or the rail fold arged the provision of a communal wash
from Can it narrow the field of Russin's politi
being brought back to the eal activities! Some people flatter them Europe may then see its political axis house. Baths were essential now that tir, selves that it can. They may, however,
once rare shifted, and its outlook obscur. Lambeth Borough Council had increased be mistaken. The task which was ardú-
ed. The territorial equilibrium which is the price to 98. A man with a wife and ous may be already beyond their power.
Mid to be abolished by the Fourteen family could not afford to pay this. Points
The Prince of Wales: I quite realise be openly re-established by may the hundred-and-one economico-political that. The expense is too great, changes which Ruania's recovery will cos tribute to bring about.
VEELING AGAINST EXTENTE.
I have watched the development of anti- Ententisar among Russians with painfall interest and in favourable conditions for observation, and I say without hesitation that rancour against the Allies burns as vehemently and intensely among the anti Bolsheviks
as among their adversaries. Russia us o
bitterly hostile to her former Allhole is
exclaimed un-eminent Russian lately. for as soon she had rendered them inestimable services at the cost of her political existence, they turn ed their backs upon her as though her agony were no affair of theirs."
divided on the country is
ERRORS OF THE ALLIES.
At, the close his Royal Highness said he could, not tell them how much he appre rated their kindness in laying the facts before him. What they had said would How defective the psychological fair of have every consideration, and he should the lawgivers of the Conference has been submit it to the Queen. He should b may be seen from the methods as well as
the general trend of their policy. They most happy to act in collaboration with devised no coherent scheme for dealing them, and have their advice and assist- ance. He would be very pleased to walk with Eastern Europe, and no sure means round the estate with them. He had a of carrying out such
Stful measures 8
they adopted. Alene the Americans were they knew, been away for three or four equipped with carefully tabulated statis years, but he thought things had im To-day tics and huge masses of facts, which they proved, and would improve in the near тапу issues. poured out as lavishly as coal heavers future. Dissensions and quarrels have riven and the contents of their sacks into the shattered it iato shreds. But in one
ect Russia is still united; ia ther
respect
But selves in a labyrinth197
put them to no practical
Losing
vehemence of her resentments towards the details, they failed to get a coION,
view of the whole. The other
RECOGNITION OF NEW STATES.
Allies. Some part of the hatred engen
The proximate motives that determined dered might have been displaced if repre- lacked both data and general ide A the Secret Council to recognise this or sentatives of the provisional Russian Gov-
short time ago, from the twilight of the that new State, although of no political ernments had been admitted to the Con- Conference chamber, went forth the un- moment, are of sufficient psychological ference. It would have helped and could official but serious suggestion chat Kol Pinterest to warrant mention They shed not have harmed the Allies, It would chak should
Constituent Assem
have bound the Russians.. For: Russiais bly for this idea is not more
delegates, the men sent or empow singular than the circumstance that it
Cred
light on the concreteness, directness. and simplicity of the workings of the
he Kolchak and his colleagues emanated from the minds of men who,dening us thands when engaged in trans-
international business. New com-
could and would have offered no diaries were exhorted to detor.treasury wanted a sions they would have ended by accept mine the geographical herit "As this pre-supposed the existence of.
of
"Was a
to represent them. would have been without waiting for the vote of any assem munities were judged to be ripe for the exponents of a pithless community bly: sanctioned the separation of whole recognition because of some wholly ex hovering between life and death. They pro
provinces from Russia Before officially trinsical circumstance. A food distri- Finland's independence, the butor, for instance, or the secretary ofna aition to the world-dictators, whose deci
ia receipt for expenditure with abroad from the State that benefited 呕 ing. And the acquiescere, however pro which they were prepared to visional. would have tended to relieve the
This would have been a helpful-ita a State and a Government, he declined ir load their Allies of a sensible part of responsibility.
certatious deste task, owing to to come to the aid of a people that was It would also have link the
cherishek by the not a State and lacked a proper Govern ed the Russians, loosely perhaps, but per: Helsingfors Government the time.ment, and the Conference ceptibly to their former Allies. would have imparted settled diet Now it was the invariable practice of the both without delag. Thus had to create tion to Kolchak's poker, and com- of all thorny issues as long as might be. Izorla independence received the ball- secret Council of Five, or Tree to put
of the Powers when it did was might have dispelled some of the storm- One of the influential delegates told the Finns, and had to get in return pro- municated it to the nation. In short, it and this one was dealt with, accordingly. because the United States Government preparing give aid to clouds that are gathering in the East friend of mine who among others
bad of Europe.
plended for this preliminary delimita per receipts signed by competent authori
the State.
Had it not tion, that it was a secondary matter which ties representing KOLCHAK'A ADVANCE.
the been for this need of valid. Russia is apparently tearing the end could be settled later by othe
And settled a ime of recognition might have be the ball de comprobably
been post of bar long-drawn-out agony. Kolchak's
be later probably not by one
of poned as was the army is advancing, not quite, so rapidly boundary commissions, but býlaâess Frontiers And Harking, off of the considerations led to cases. Czecho-Blo- wakia's independence was formally re- Cognised for the same reasons, as one of te lending men acuitted-Daily Velc graph
circumstances prova superlatively favoured frontier questions are Gordian knots, able, he may reach Moscow some time this and have to treated as such,
year, especially if Petrograd be captured
In the meanwhile. These eventualities,
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the
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