BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1924, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. DIVIDED COCXSELK. I,OX DON. Jan. -I. The Cabinet yesterday partly consid--ered’'the King’s .speech. Consideration of R will he resumed next week. The “Daily Express’s’’ political correspondent states that the rough draft of the Speech makes reference lo Imperial prefornce. and proposes that Parliament confirm the Conference decisions. A strong section ol the tahinet., however, advocated a lull protectionist declaration, while another section advocated dropping the siibjei t v altogether. The discussion ended indecisively. The tlillerenees are so acute- that several Cabinets will probably he necessary to arrive at an agreement. The “.Morning Dost" says that the Cabinet considered the correspondency from the City ol Eondoti ( oiiservut iies in favour of an alliance with the Liberals. Cabinet approved, with perhaps one exception, Mr Baldwin’s attitude against approaching Mr Asrpiith with a view lo an understanding. The. “Da/ly TeJegrnphV’ Parliamentary correspondent says: I here are heartsearchings among the l.iber--x- tils regarding the wisdom of defeating Mr Baldwin, and installing the Socialists. There is good authority tor saying that a number of Liberal capitalists have protested, and did not subscribe to the Party foods, in order to assist in the creation ol the lir.-t. So. eialist Government in Britain. ' I.OXDOX. Jan. '. Rt Mon J. It. Clviies. Labour M.l’.. in the “Daily Herald,” ridicules the gihheriug gliosts paraded by a section of the press in an attempt to terrify the public against a Labour Government.. He says: “These will not frighten men and women who have mm ui jltities of hu a get ' !,lu : |Vgoes that “what tlio cMicmios of Lat ?I|| . ;| v f ( . ;u . not that Labour will . f . M , ‘ tl) ‘ . v out its programme, hot i( 511( . ( . e( ,d and prove iself lit to „ <m , nl » A Pt/I.i h< ■ \ L. [lWeived this dnv <at The He Ma 4^ ,)OX i ' pealing Mr “ U *" k ‘ r ' 'T' in formin" a^' 1,a,,1 ' V 1". " tration eve.# at the cost ol his ow< |rtn,^’il|ii >I '. calls 'attention to the a Socialist (oivernmein would tJR-c control <>! ee< Ivsia -l ieal appointments, and in as mneli as Socialism is fundamentally non-religious, the Colintry would view with alarm and dismay a committee of Socialists nppointing Bishops. British Socialists swallowed Marxism as a whole and approved of the behaviour of arch priests Lenin and Trotsky. Unless the Conservatives uflitl , Liberals unite, the country is faced with the gravest danger.