disarmament and international control of armament. If
 
opportunity were offfered the British people now
 
a peace built upon these terms, the overwhelming majority
 
of them would enthusiastically support such a peace, and 
 
he himself would publicly support it up and down the 
 
length and breadth of the land.
 
     "Do not believe them", he said, "when they tell you
 
that the British people want this war. I know them, and
 
I know they do not--they want security, and if they can
 
obtain it on the terms I have mentioned, they will demand
 
     Mr. Lloyd George spent most of the time talking of
 
the last war, and of his Prime Ministership. He spoke
 
of President Wilson with respect, but with no particular
 
enthusiasm, and of French statesmen with neither respect 
 
nor enthusiasm.                      
 
Mr. Lloyd George expressed the conviction that if
 
peace were restored as the result of an understanding of
 
the kind he had mentioned, between Great Britain, France,
 
Germany and Italy, Russia world oncemore withdraw from
 
active participation in Western European affairs, and
 
afford no problem of any real gravity.