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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16796, 30 March 1920, Page 7

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MR LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH.

(By Cable—Press Association —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, March 26. There was a piquant situation when Mr Lloyd George was entertained by tho Radical Club in the same room as that in which Mr Asquith spoke on Wednesday. A large gathering of active supporters of tho Coalition and others' was , present, expecting a lively rejoinder to Mr Asquith. The gathering was not disappointed. Mr Lloyd George was in his most combative mood, and administered hard hits against his Liberal and Labour opponents. He again and i gain aroused loud laughter and cheers, and proved that he is in no wav afraid to take up the Liberal chnllengo.

He said it was cheap, sloppy, commonplace talk to say that his speech was an attack on a particular class. The working class was not responsible for the Socialist programme. The vast majority of the workmen repudiated it.

Ho wnrned Mr Asquith, as an old friend, not to walk too far along the towing path with Lord and Lord Rothermere. Hero Mr Lloyd George paused, and then he added — "unless he can swim!" (Loud laughter.) In another effective passage he twitted Mr Asquith and Mr Runciman with abandoning the Paris resolution, which professed to protect the key industries and prevent dumping. "Thev don t like to talk about the Paris resolutions now," he said. "Thev wore fino once. Now Mr Asquith is abandoning his war babies, and Mr Runciman says he will kill them tho first chance lie gets."

LIBERALS AND MR ASQUITH,

LONDON, March 26,

Tho executive of the National Liberal Federation unanimously expressed confidence in Mr Asquith, and approval of his attitude as outlined in has recent speech.