MR WELLS AND THE "TORIES."

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19171, 30 November 1927, Page 9

MR WELLS AND THE "TORIES."

A SLASHING ATTACK. LIBERAL-LABOUR COALITION ADVOCATED. MR SNOW DEN SUGGESTED AS LEADER. (BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTBALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 29th, 7.15 p.m.) LONDON, November 28. Mr H. G. Wells makes a slashing attack on Mr Baldwin's Government in a special article in the "Daily Express." The one salvation of the country, he says, is a coalition of the Liberal and Labour Parties under the leadership of Mr Snowden, the one man who can best lead the British Empire back to sanity, security, service, and peace. What exists is to be considered merely as a narcotic Government drowsing inattentively. The situation is really the moijt dangerous Britain has ever known. "It is stupidity," he says, "not morely passive stupidity, as we once believed, but active stupidity." Mr Wells says the Government is setting things moving in the direction of war on three cardinal points—first, by supporting the aggrossively reactionary Signor Mussolini, author of a tawdry and unclean tyranny, to a pitch amounting to a virtual'betrayal of Republican Franco and Germany; second, by failure to reach an understanding with America; and third, by the Russian muddle, resulting in the breaking off of trade relations, and the creation of an impression in the world generally, and in Russia particularly that Britain is the foremost enomy of the Soviet. Even the grave social war waged at Home is dwarfed by monstrous international dangers. Mr Wells condemns as implacable stupidity the policy of pure Liberalism of Sir Herbert Samuel and the fantastic vanity and loneliness of Mr Mac Donald, which rules out a Liberal-Labour coalition. A majority of Britain wants such a coalition, and as the anti-Government majority is plainly Labour, there musl be a Labour leader. Mr Snowden as a man has a peculiar quality of greatness. Mr Lloyd George might work with him because he does not possess the narrow-mindedness of Sir Herberl Samuel or the lonely vanity of Mr MacDonald. Mr Wells advocates that at the nexl election everybody should disregard differences in the Liberal and Laboui vote in favour of legitimate claimant! to the seats, whether Liberal or Labour thereby defeating the Tories.