498    THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE, 1 919, VOLUME IV


Allies should prevent Russia from becoming Imperial again. He
himself feared that more than he did Bolshevism.
M. CLEMENCEAU was afraid of both.
PRESIDENT WILSON said Bolshevism must collapse, whereas an Im-
perial Russia might remain. There was nothing in the Treaty with
Germany to prevent the Germans from forming a powerful indus-
trial and commercial union with Russia. He asked what the assist-
ance given to Russia consisted in.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE said arms and supplies.
PRESIDENT WILSON asked if they had been able to build up stocks.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE thought not. Koltchak's success was probably
due to the fact that the Bolshevists had no coal or oil.
(M. Simon, the French Minister of the Colonies, entered.)
5. M. SIMON said that the document he had been asked to prepare
required a very careful text, and was not yet ready.
German          MR. LLOYD GEORGE said he had telephoned to Lord
Colonies:     Milner about the Colonies, and hoped to receive an
Mandates      answer that afternoon. In the meanwhile, he would
ask M. Simon to consult with an official of the Colonial Office for
whom he had sent in regard to an agreement which he handed to
him. (Appendix.)
6. PRESIDENT WILSON said he had received a letter from a gentle-
man who signed himself President of the Council and Minister of
Foreign Affairs for Montenegro, claiming a place at
Montenegro    the Conference in the afternoon on the ground that
Montenegro had been an effective belligerent. He
did not raise the question of his being present this afternoon, but he
thought a decision ought to be taken in regard to Montenegro before
the Austrian settlement was concluded.
(This was agreed to.)
7. PRESIDENT WILSON said that he understood that the Persians
were much depressed at not being consulted in regard to the Peace
Persia        Settlement. They said that their interests were not
being considered.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE pointed out that the Austrian [Turkish?] prob-
lem had not yet been discussed in any detail. When it was discussed,
he wished the Council to hear what the representatives of India had
to say, particularly in regard to Constantinople and the future of
Islam. He thought that Persia ought then to be heard.
8. M. CLEMENCEA-u reported that the Austrian Government had
accepted the invitation to send a delegation. He then read a despatch
Austria       from the French representative in Vienna, somewhat
in the following terms-
"The Press Bulletin of Berne has announced that the Austrian
Delegation will be called to Paris only in the second half of the