SITUATION ANALYSED

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 14, 17 January 1924, Page 7

SITUATION ANALYSED

NO HOPE FOR MR. BALDWIN.

(REUTERS TELEGRAM.)

(Received 17th January, noon.)

LONDON, 16th January. The moderation and essentially liberal complexion of the Speech from the Throne ha'a done nothing to modify the tacit Liberal-Labour agreement to eject the Government. A number of backbench Liberals "have lodged a separate amendment^ mentioning unemployment and Protection and the Government's international and domestic policy. The amendment, however, is unlikely to be reached.

The Conservative commentators are now resigned to the inevitable. Even the forlorn campaign in favour of LiberalConservative co-operation has now flickered Out.

The Labour organ expresses impatience aj, the large number of Liberals who insist on talking on the amendment, thus delaying Mr. Macdonald's advent to power, but the Liberal papers unanimously embrace the Labour amendment as a suitable instrument for inflicting the quietus on Mr. Baldwin, and dwell on the potentialities of long life for a Labour Government, provided the national welfare is not subordinated to tactical niceties. There is a suggestion of mutiny in the ranks of Labour in a separate amendment moved by five' Clyde Labour members, referring to the millions of workers on the verge of starvation. Lobby - correspondents unanimously forecast a Government defeat on the 22nd January, followed by an adjournment of several weeks to enable Cabinet to pick up the threads.