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problems as disarmament, a possible European regional
 
federation, and colonies, would automatically settle them-
 
selves. What was the key to the problem was the need to
 
convince the German people that they had an equality of
 
opportunity with the other great nations, that Justice
 
had been done them, and that they could look ahead with
 
"confident hope" to the future. The policy of Great Britain
 
and of France during the past years had achieved exactly
 
the reverse. 
 
     Forgetting, apparently, his own direct responsibility
 
for the terms of the Versailles Treaty, Mr. Lloyd George
 
inveighed bitterly against the terms which had to do with
 
German frontiers. He referred to the separation of East
 
Prussia from Greater Germany by the Polish Corridor as
 
"damnable", and spoke of the arrangement covering the institution 
 
of the Free City of Danzig--which he referred to
 
as a completely German city--as a "criminal farce".
 
     He spoke with particular bitterness of French policy
 
towards Germany since 1921. All in all, it was his opinion  
 
that no policy could have been more criminally stupid than 
 
that pursued by the present Allies towards Germany during
 
recent years.
 
     He felt that it was not too late to remedy the mis-
 
takes, and repair the irreparable disasters which would 
 
result from a long-drawn out war of attrition, or a war 
 
of  devastation. The territorial and political questions 
 
should present no real obstacles; the economic postulates 
 
for a sane world commercial and financial relationship 
 
could be established with the aid of the United States; 
 
the problem of security could then be determined through
 
                                disarmaments