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Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN >NT> N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. VIMS OF LIBERAL I’ARTY. Received fhis tlav at 11.30 a rn.) LONDON, March 8. Mr .Asquith speaking at Cambridge, dealt with a Liberal reunion, particularly with Mr Lloyd George's speech at Edinburgh, suggesting a conference to accelerate the reunion. Afr Asquith snifi lievc it inevitable, if wo go the right way to secure it, but we might not to lie content with sentimental phrases. I held a high office for eleven years. Does anyone suppose I have not satisfied illy ambitions. I only remain in public life in order to help reinstate the Libera] Party to its rightful position as a responsible custodian of our nation.l fortunes, but there is no peace for me and my friends in the Centre party. f ask if that idea lias been definitely abandoned. T hope Liberal unity Is coming quickly. There is no barring of the door, which is always open. It has been suggested that one result of the reunion would be a new programme. What is that to be, will the slogan of the combined campaign lx- against Labour by the united Liberal parly. That it ". not appear a sound or attractiv.- watchword. Liberals have no quarrel with Labour ns such. They -bare many aims with the more responsible faction- nl the Labour party. The Liberal-, need :• i nacious adlierenic to their old principles and organised propaganda not by n claptrap rhetoric, but by appeal to history. animated by a sympathetic understanding of the needs of the lamliy of nations.