Mr. Asquith, who followed the Prime Minister, said that the
results of the much-advertised Conference were ".depressingly and .even distressingly meagre." Thirty-five nations had dis- cussed the Russian problem for five weeks, and had not advanced a single, step. As for the truce, all the nations except Germany were bound either by the Covenant or by treaties to abstain from aggression. The. Prime. Minister's fear of war in Eastern Europe was a mere bogy. The Conference had yielded no results because America took no part, France was half-hearted in her participation, and the real problems of Europe were excluded from the programme. Mr. Clynes, for the Labour Party, urged that we had promised France in the Treaty of Versailles more than we could perform, and that we should give full recognition to the.Bolsheviks.
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