BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1927, Page 2

BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

(Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.)

11. G. WELLS’S ATTACK. LONDON, Nov. 28. Mr 11, G. AVells makes a smashing attack on Mr Baldwin’s Government in a special article in the “ Daily Express.” The one salvation, he says, is a coalition of the Liberal and Labour Parties under the leadership of Mr Snowden, the one man who can best lead the British Empire back to sanity, security, service and peace. What exists is to he considered as a narcotic Government, drowsing inattentively, and the situation is really the most dangerous Britain ever lias known. It is stupidity, not merely passive stupidity, as we once believed, but active stupidity, .Air Wells challenges the Government in setting things moving in the direction of war, on three cardinal points. Firstly, supporting aggressively reactionary Mussolini, another of tawdry unclean tyranny, to a pitch amounting to a virtual betrayal of Republican France and Germany; secondly, its failure to reach an understanding with America ; and thirdly, the Russian muddle, resulting in broken oft trade, treating the impression in the world generally, and Russia particularly, that Britain is the foremost enemy ol the •Soviet. Even the grave social war waged at home dwarfed the monstrous international dangers.

AH- AVells condemns as implacable stupidity the policy of pure Liberalism of Sir Herbert Samuel and the fantastic vanity and loneliness of Afr MacDonald wliicli roles out a Liberal-Labour coalition. The majority in Britain wants such a coalition as an anti-Governnient majority, plainly Labour; and there must be a Labour Leader. Air Snowden, as a man. lias a peculiar quality of greatness. Mr Lloyd George might Work with him because he does not possess the narrow-mindedness of Sir H. Samuel, or the lonely vanity of Air MacDonald.

Afr AVells advocates that everybody at the next election should disregard the differences of Liberal and Labour, and vote for the legitimate claimant to the seat, whether Liberal or Labour, thereby defeating the Tory.

IN THE COAIAIONS. LONDON, Nov. 29,

In the Commons, Air Baldwin, when questioned, said the Government did not propose to appoint a Royal Commission to consider the possibility of practical co-operation between competing State-owned wireless systems and cables.

.Mr C;. Hacking informed a questioner that lie was aware some authorities feared a prospective world shortage of tin. He was following closely discussions re the possibility of stabilising prices, and did not think a scieiitifu inquiry by the Government into the possibility of conserving the Empire’s tin resources at present advantageous. Mr AV. Ormsby-Gore, in amvser to a question, said tlie convention between the Turkish Petroleum Coy. and the Government of Iraq provided that the company must continue to he registered in Britain and have its chief place of business within the Empire, with a chairman of British nationality.