Note 67 — Chapter V · PATRIOTISM AND POWER IN WAR AND PEACE
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The official record of the Meeting of the Council of Ten on January 16, 1919, as furnished to the Foreign Relations Committee of the American Senate, reports Mr Lloyd George as saying:—
‘The mere idea of crushing Bolshevism by military force is pure madness....
‘The Russian blockade would be a “death cordon,” condemning women and children to starvation, a policy which, as humane people, those present could not consider.’