Abstract

British Policy in Russia

British Prime Minister David Lloyd George recently said that Allies might settle with Germany and other enemy powers but there would be no real peace unless peace were made in the Soviet Union. Moreover, apart from its effects on British domestic politics, the Soviet war meant endless turmoil in a large part of Europe. More serious still, there is the probability, which is supported by the recent speeches of German political leaders, that Germany, overwhelmed by the terms of peace and made desperate by her exclusion from the League of Nations, may gravitate to an understanding with the Soviet Bolsheviks and the formation of an enormous bloc in Central and Eastern Europe, which will offset the rival bloc of the Allies and the U.S.