SPEECH BY CHURCHILL.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1924, Page 3

SPEECH BY CHURCHILL.

&ÜBTH*. MAN AND N.Z C.UII.K ASSOCIATION. I .ON DON. Si-|>t. 4 * Air \V. C’hllr< lii 11 delivered a speech with a strongly Imperial note. Allndinj£ to tariff preference, .Mr Churchill recalled that at the height (1 f tPo war. leading statesmen of the Dominions sal in eanferenee with the British Cahinet, wherein the Conservatives. I.iherals and l.ahonr were represented, and a resoltitian was passed unanimously affirming the principle of prelerential duties within tiie Empire whenever possihle. Now it was nggrcs-ivdy repudiated hy the Socialist Government. lie said: “The war is over, and we no longer need half a million Canadians. Australians. New Zealanders and South Africans to hold the line in I*’ranee; hut it is nnwnrthv id a event country to recede Irom understandings (riven faithful valiant friends.” Regarding Singapore Naval lla.se. In’ said the Socialist (lovernment. had made it impossihle for [he British Navy to enter the I’aeific, and consequently to afford the slightest assistance to Australia and New Zealand, however terrible their •need. Australia and New Zealand had lircn told in oiled, that they must shift for themselves; yet the Sin ialists would pTndly hawk the I»ritisli Navy round Kurone to he the drudge of an international '.'rgani«ntion, and fig! 11 every ipuirrel hut itnwn. Ilf contrasted the Government's attitude towards the Dominions with their proposal to suhsidise io boson one of the worst tyrannies that ever existed in the world, lie said: “those who deserted us in the war receive smiles, eompliments, caresses and cash. On the cunt racy. Canada. Australia. New Zealand ,and South A Irion. wl:n sent thousands of unlliu-hiiig holders get, nothin'', hut. frigid repulsion, cold stares of indifference, nver.-inn and neglect.” (Cheers). He added: “The Conservative le.nlers have ilelinitelv aiinoum ;d that the oeneral tariff will he excluded from their platform at the next election and they have staled again and again that thev would not lax staple foods. _ It is absurd for the l.iherals to continue the fiscal controversy.”

CIiriICHILLS I’llKDlC’iniN. LONDON. Sept. Lord Balfour. Sir 11. Horne, with Mr Churchill, were present on the same platform. II was at a nicotine of the ollioinl Conservative I ’arty, under the auspices of the Edinburgh Lraneli. Air Churchill, io a fighting speech, predicted a general election in a few months, jiinl possibly in «i l<‘\\ y.rcks. to tin* Irish sitoMt'nm. Ik* said he was astonished at the I* roc State leaders insisting that the Imperial Commissioner, hy a (-listing vote, should demarcate a h inndarv which would constitute a real foreign Dantier, making an unbridgeable ('till hetween Clster and the South. He (Churchill) trusted wiser counsels would prevail, and a settlement la reached between Irishmen themselves, which would allow hatieds o subside, and i'.million interests to crow, without marring for many goiiernti m*. the holies the signatories m Die Treaty had in view.