Approaches to the great settlement . parts of Armenia that should come under their influence andlater Italy was let into the understanding with compensation alongthe western coast of the Turkish Empire from Adalia to north ofSmyrna. Then came the revolution in Russia. Through it Eng-land and France were led to go far in the direction of the principleof annexation. Armenia may well be under the protection of agroup of Powers, rather than having its different parts controlledby separate Powers. There has been among diplomats a certainhostility to collective protectorates because of the failure o
Approaches to the great settlement . parts of Armenia that should come under their influence andlater Italy was let into the understanding with compensation alongthe western coast of the Turkish Empire from Adalia to north ofSmyrna. Then came the revolution in Russia. Through it Eng-land and France were led to go far in the direction of the principleof annexation. Armenia may well be under the protection of agroup of Powers, rather than having its different parts controlledby separate Powers. There has been among diplomats a certainhostility to collective protectorates because of the failure of thatplan in Egypt. There is, however, no analogy. In Egypt therewas actual detailed administration, and each of the protectingPowers sent administrators. The result was failure and the turn-ing over of the job to England. 1 See for instance, p. 184 and 191, also the statement of the Inter-national Socialist Congress of London in 1896, quoted in Walling,Socialists and the War, pp. 41-2. See however, for a Russian view,p. 240. [144]. RT. HON. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE This is also one of the few points on which thePopes note is quite specific. He proposes, on theone hand, restitution of the German colonies; and,on the other, evacuation of French territory, andentire independence in every respect for Belgium. British Colonial Views. Neither the Allies Jan-uary statement of terms nor President Wilsons re-ply to the Pope deal with the question. The Britishposition on the subject seems to have been that thewishes of British colonial populations — notably ofthe South Africans and Australians — were of domi-nant importance in the matter. Of special weight,therefore, are certain statements by their spokesman,Mr. Walter Long, British Secretary of State for theColonies. In January he said: Let no manthink that these colonies will ever return to Germanrule. Our Oversea Empire will not tolerate anysuggestion of the kind. In August, however, afterthe Imperial Conference, he was struck by the
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