PLAIN TALK

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11127, 10 February 1930, Page 5

PLAIN TALK

BALDWIN ON. ROTHERMERE. FAILURE AS AIR MINISTER. ROTHERMEItE’S BITTER REPLY. EN.PREMIER INCOMPETENT. United PreaH Aena .by El. Tel. Copyiiebt(Received Feb. 9, 5 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 8. The Daily Mad discloses that, after liis recent speech to the Conservative Party, Mr. Baldwin took the opportunity, at a. semi-private Conservative dinner, to make a slashing retort to tho anti-Baldwin campaign which Lord Rothermero is conducting in the Daily .Mail. The ex-Prime Minister declared that he did not desire the Daily Mail’s support, nor would lie give up th*' Conservative leadership. Newspa]>or attacks were personal and unfair. As for Lord Kothcrmere’.s reputation for efficiency, it was Lord Nonhcliifo who made the Daily Mail. Lord Rothoriiiorc muddled his job as Air Minister in 1017-18 and he resigned because an attack on his administration was pending. Probably lie would not have- got the post except for Lord Norlhclifie’s influence. Interviewed by the Daily New;-. 'Lord Rothermere said that he lad just returned from America and had no knowledge as to what Mr. Baldwin had said and was t;ol concerned with what be said. "Mr. Baldwin is, ’’lie added, "a completely incompetent person who. by accident of posl-var politics, fluked his way into high office.”