FRICTION IN BRITISH CABINET

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 265, 3 August 1920, Page 5

FRICTION IN BRITISH CABINET

OVER IRISH AND RUSSIAN QUESTIONS

REVOLT IN UNIONIST RANKS

■By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright

London, .August 1. Various newspapers indicate that there is friction in the Cabinet, amounting to a Unionist revolt against the Prime Minister, over the questions cf Ireland and Russia. There is a feeling among Unionists that Mr. Lloyd Gcorgo 38 temporising with Sinn Fernism, instead of anntliilating it. Both 1 the Liberali l'eace Party nnd tho Unionist War Party are angry over the Russian The Prime -Minister is accused of facing both ways on the Polish difficulty, whfio Mr. Winston Churchill, in a recent newspaper- article, went so far as to suggest that Germany might be asked to r'pel a Bolshevik advance.

Beneath all the other causes is the feeling that in tho Cabinet, in which Unionists are doininarit, they ouyht to have a predominant share in shaping tho policy, instead of Mr. Lloyd George's exercising a dictatorship. Writing to Sir Kingsley Wood (Unionist M.P.) Mr. Lloyd-Georgo says thero never was a time when there was greater need for unity, in order-to secure a solution of urgent problems at Homo iand abroad.

Lord Wolmer, addressing a Unionist meeting at Aldcrshot, said tho Conservatives were disappointed by the lack of firm principles on the part of their leaders. If Mr. Bonar Law could not lead hS should mako i way fc-r- someone else. He believed Sir Edward Carson was the personality the country 'stood in greatest need cf -at present. French- newspapers condemn Mr. Churchill's suggestion. . Tho "Echo de Paris" sees in it the recrudescence of England's insular policy of creating Antagonism between the nations on the Continent.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.