16 DECEMBER 1922, Page 3

The more we hear of the unfortunate negotiations with Greece

the more tragic and blundering they seem. M. Gounaris was executed for the part he took in a vain enterprise, yet now we learn that he knew the truth and told it. Mr. Lloyd George had no recollection of this desperate document, which might have altered the whole tide of affairs. It was never discussed by the Cabinet. So little impression, indeed, was made by it on anybody that Mr. Lloyd George, in a notorious speech in the House of Commons last August, declared in effect that the Greek Army was so strong and skilful that it could easily dispose of the Turks. It is all one of the strangest and most humiliating episodes in our foreign policy.