§ 47. Colonel WEDGWOODasked the Prime Minister whether the Allies sanctioned the Polish occupation of the Lithuanian city of Vilna; whether he is aware that the Lithuanians desire to have no connection with Poland; and whether he is aware that the actions of the Polish Army in Vilna in pillaging the Lithuanians there has still further embittered the relations between these two distinct races?
Mr. HARMSWORTHThe answer to the first part of my hon. and gallant Friend's question is in the negative. As regards the second and third parts of the question, I do not feel authorised to speak for the Lithuanians.
§ Mr. MacVEAGHIs not Lithuania in North-East Poland, and is it not a fact 825 that they have threatened to get up a civil war against the system of government?
§ Colonel WEDGWOODIs the hon. Member not aware that at the bottom of this difficulty is the clerical question of imposing an alien Church on those people?
§ Captain ORMSBY-GOREIs it not a fact that the Poles, unauthorised by the Allies, took Vilna, massacred 2,000 Jews and put a large number of Lithuanians to the sword without the sanction of the Allies?