Pièce 5 - Extract from a letter from Sir George Lloyd to Edwin Montagu

He has advised the Viceroy to concentrate on rallying the moderates and to refuse a conference on one-sided conditions. The Government must achieve a victory before it can enter a conference, and now Bengal has acted there is no alternative to ‘going straight ahead’. Mean-while they must hold on while Montagu settles the Moslem question. This settlement must now be a definite one. ‘The Enos Midia line drawn back to include Adrianople is the minimum in Thrace; all Anatolia including Smyrna and Cilicia must be Turkish, and a Vatican position in Mecca and Medina, Kerbela and Nejf.’ He wishes he were at home to take a hand, as he cannot believe a solution impossible.