BRITISH ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1929, Page 5

BRITISH ELECTIONS

MR BALDWIN’S CLAIM

(United Press Association—By Eleclrie Telegraph—Copy ngnt).

LONDON, May 14. “No leader has ever had better ground for confidence,” stated Mr Stanley Baldwin in a message before touring the West Country. “I start ; the campaign confident of victiv.v. Neither the Liberals nor the Labourites can offer the country the stable and steadily progressive government which it needs at present. That is the issue in a nutshell." Mr Baldwin addressed ten t.h .usand people at ITynmu li ibis evening, when there was lift a single voiie of dissent though the meeting was ail open one.

Referring to Mr Lloyd George’s scheme for the remedy of unemployment, the Prime Minister said: “Prosperity must lie founded on work—not on stimuli!ills'! Put taxation first and product! n afterwards, and you might as well put the shutters up!”

Mr Baldwin described the Ministry’s work as ‘ no fireworks—no headlines.” What had been accomplished had been done just by day-to-day work, as a man,would in his own business.”

Mr Baldwin said he hoped the now Government would be able to make an-agreement with the United States whicli would lift the whole prob’em of disarmament from talk into a scheme of action.

“DAILY EXPRESS” COMMENT

LONDON, May 13

Mr' Lloyd George, speaking at the National Liberal Club, referred to the need for the modernisation 1 and reconditioning of the railways.

Tlie “Daily Express,” in an edit-r----ial on the subject, interprets Mr Lloyd George’s speech as meaning the adoption by the Liberal Party of a policy which it (the Express) has long been advocating. The ‘‘Daily Express” says: Mr Baldwin, by comparison, appears to put his faith in immediate investigation, instead of in action. MR WINSTON CHURCHILL. * - LONDON, May 14. Mr 1 Winston Churchil , writing in the’Daily Telegraph, says: ‘‘Of all the States in the modern world, Britain can -least afford' to. -make a mistake. The Empire is passing through a . of ' transiti >n. Nothing is settled. Nothing is fixed; The next ten years 'will probably deckle whether the Empire will draw together or drift apart. It--is net the Government, but the whole British nation, that is on its trial. It is British fortunes which are now being decided.” OPPOSITION PROTEST. i . LONDON, May 13. Both Mr Lloyd George and Mr Ramsay MacDonald have both attacked the- Government’s action in publishing a White Paper giving the views of Ministers on the Liberal Party’s unemployment scheme, and also containing a reply ' from tiki Conservative Party headquarters,.-which says that the clhnfplaint smacks-...0f* hypocrisy. The reply points out that Mr Lloyd George, Sir J. Simon and other Liberals, have asserted that the civil servants who were instructed to examine 13 the plan wore unable to find any flaw in it.- It added that Ministers were entitled to reply without publishing confidential information.