He ends with these words :-
" We fully accept the plebiscite as an expression of the wishes of the people of Silesia, but having gone mto a great war and sustained gigantic losses in defence of an old treaty to which this country was a party, Britain cannot consent to stand by whilst a treaty her representatives signed less than two years ago is being trampled upon."
The worst part of the message, unlike anything ever before dispatched by a British Prime Minister—except perhaps by Mr. Lloyd George himself—is the rebuke to the French Press. M. Briand is not responsible for that Press, and Prime Ministers had better leave the foreign Press alone :- " With all respect," writes Mr. Lloyd George, " I would say to the French Press that the habit of treating every expression of Allied opinion which does not coincide with their own as an impertinence is fraught with mischief. That attitude of mind, if persisted in, will be fatal to any Entente."
