First Lord of the Admiralty, said a further argument for a secret session was Mr. Lloyd George's speech, which would be misrepresented in Europe as an indication of surrender, which he was sure wes not Mr. Lloyd George's intention. "We stand," he added, "wholly in support of Mr. Chamberlain's statement that no peace will be made with the pres-lent government in Germany, because any peace they signed will never be kept."
Mr. Lloyd George here interposed that he was the last man to propose surrender.
Mr. David Rhys Grenfell, Labour member for the Gower division of Glamorgan, and Brig-General Sir Henry Page Croft, Conservative member for Bournemouth. were the next to criticize the Welsh statesman.
The pacifists, Mr. George Buchanan, Independent Labour member for the Gorbals division of Glasgow, and the Rev. James Barr, Labour member for the Coatbridge division of Lanarkshire, then expressed themselves as being in favour of opening negotia tions on the ground that the issues were not worth millions of lives.
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