BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1924, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. I.AT’.OnrK LEADER. (Received this (lav nt i). 1 o a.m.) LONDON, dan. Ob Re.msa v MaeDmiakl m an article in 11 1<‘ Socialist Review . --ay- we never ii.'li.-vi-.l tin < aj.ital levy was a cure tor iinciiiployin.’iii. li was nothing more than an expedient ior reducing 1 lie national delft and therein- lowerine ullpl'nduet ive taxation. lietelling to Mr Raid win verlially informing Mr Asc 111 i 11 1 after the elec--lion that (loveriiiiieiit intended to meet Parliament. instead of immediately resigning, and sending Mr MacDonald a similar written instead of verbal intimation. .Mr .MacDonald writes that Labour is an offence to their sense of proprieties. Tliev regard us as belonging to the holt-nail breed. THE FATKKUL DIVISION. THE i.AliOl'P tAIiI.NET. [ Kkcteu.m Telkuhams.] (Reeeived this day at. I'd noon). LONDON, dan. 20.

The .climax of the noiitieni drama iapproaching and it is anticipated that the fateful division which will practically result in the certain defeat of the Ooveriiiiieiit. will occur on .Monday night • .Meanwhile, it is umier-lood that Mr Macdonald will tub the porttolio oi Foreign A Hair t in addition to the Riertiiershiji and. according to the newspapers, will make set-end provisional t'abiuet appointments, i,finding Mr I’hilip Snowden as ( ham-ellor of the Exchequer, Lord Haldane as Lord Chancellor, .Mr Clync-s as Lord 1 hivy Seal and Deputy Leader of the Commons, Sidney \\ ebb as .Minister lor Labour, ami Patrick Hastings as Attorney Oeneral. It is stated that. Mi-s -Margaret Londlieltl will he an Under-Secretary ami she will be the lirst woman to hold office in Rritain. ANOTHER KOI!EC'AST. (Received this: tlav at Id imoiii. LONDON, .1 an. 20. The ".Sunday Times'’ loreeasts the following .Ministerial appointments a

Mr Ammon, Air; Mr Hartshorn. Rost Office; Lord Haldane, Admiralty ; Mr Sidney Webb, Labour; .Mr Hastings, Attorney-Ceneral ; and .Mr Slesser. Knlicitor-Oeiioral. WINSTON (11 CR.CIITIT.. LONDON, .la nmi ry 10. The -‘Sunday Times" political cortespnmlent says Mr Winston ( biirebill s letter has failed to cxeieise material influence, hut it has a ] crsomil signi-lir-aiiee. There is a growing impression that he is once more at the pontine of the ways. He is as genuinely conservative as his father was beloio lliill, but wbetlier the Conservatives will welcome liini back is problematiral. A SKETCH. LONDON, •laiiiniry 10. Lord T’irkeuhead in a char m-t.er sketch in the “Sunday Times" ol Mr Ramsay Ma -Ronald. says r.abonr socialism is a solid political force ol great .stieiieth. ft has come to stay, and wo have to try to be interested in its lender. I read the mind of MacDonald as possessing all the rigidity ol the school of Sidney Webb with a slight- nrti- ■ * t <■ : ll.ul ~11,111 V 1 » I*l ‘f I

lieilll re-echo of pe.s-icn that seems t - red oil the Civile ami if Ihe forces which are opposed to Socialism do mil to,-pel their other (1 ilfci-cme-. he may be a new it paler Cromwell "ho will yet give modi', u England a taste of what a Kingdom of latter da\ saints would mean to life, property aml happiness.