Mr. Lloyd David stated that he was informed that at the present time two-thirds of Bolshevik Russia was starving.

Institutions of Bolsheviki are institutions of very very aged Czarist regime. This is not what one would call creating a very recent world.

3. The third alternative was contained in the British proposal, which was to summon these people to Paris to appear before those present, somewhat in the way that the Roman Empire summoned chiefs of outlying tributary states to render an account of their actions.

Mr. Lloyd David pointed out the fact that the argument might be usedthat there were already here certain representatives of theseGovernments; but take, for instance, the case of Sazonov, who claimsto represent the Government of 0msk. As a matter of fact, Sazonov cannot speak from personal observation. He is nothing but a partisan,like all the rest. He has never been in contact, and is not now indirect contact with the Government at 0msk.