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But perhaps, after all, the secrets told to the Labour

leaders were not so very secret. Last Saturday Mr. Lloyd George defended the policy of the Government before an assembly of journalists. Afterwards one of the Labour leaders announced that what Mr. Lloyd George had told the journalists was exactly what he had told the Labour leaders ! So let us get to these secrets of Polichinelle. Mr. Lloyd George declared to the journalists that nothing which had happened during the last few days had anything to do with the merits or demerits of the dispute between the Greeks and the Turks. The action of the Government had been dictated simply by anxiety for the freedom of the Straits and by a determination to prevent, if possible, "the spreading of the present horrible war into Europe."

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