Labour member for the Kingswinford division of Staffordshire, whether there was any evidence that Germany used gas bombs be consulted. He also urged that their discussions should be in a secret session.
The fate of this war, he said, depended not upon Great Britain, France or Germany, but upon neufrals. Italy and Russia had proclaimed their neutrality, and the United States was a neutral. Even without taking sides, they could either be friendly or unfriendly, "We know, and the United States know," Mr. Lloyd George added, "that they can help us as neutrals. When you come to Russia and Italy, within the limits of neutrality they can make all the difference in. the world between friendly and hostile neutrals,"
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