BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1929, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

LABOUR’S EMPIRE POLICY. (United Press Assoc’Htion— By Electric jekg. ~ph—Copyright). ’ LONDON, June 11. ' Tlie “Daily Herald’s” political correspondent says: L is learned t’>-day that Sidney .Webb will shortly make a pronouncement regarding Labour’s Empire Policy. This”is as a.result of requests to know what Labour intends, but it is not yet decided what form it will take. Webb is busy at tlie Dominions Office, studying the position with which he is not very familiar. PREMIER'S RECEPTION 1 . . \ ■ (Deceived this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, June 12. Mr 'MacDonald, accompanied bv Isabel, was tumultuously welcomed at Lossiemouth. School children on holiday cheered and waved flags, trains whistled and harbour drifters sounded sirens. A crowd of women attached ropes to the Premier’s car and iVaub'd it in a triumphal procession to Hillock, accompanied by a pipers band. . LORD JUSTICE OF APPEAL. . (British Offiuiai Wireless.) ■ ___ (' (Received this dav at 10.30. a.m.) RUGBY, June 12. It is officially announced that the King has appointed Sir Henry K. Flesser, King’s Counsel, a Lord Justice otf Appeal, in place of Lord Sankey. Sir Henry Slesser wasJSolieitor-General in the Labour Government in 1924. His appointment to the judgeship creates a parliamentary vacancy in South-east Leeds, where at the general election, be defeated the Conservative by a majority cJf 1500. " WHY WE LOST.” MR. CHURCHILL EXPLAINS. this dhr V 10 .95. n.m.i LONDON. June 12. ' “Was the slogan ‘ fW'etv First’ ( well chosen,” asks Mr W. Churchill, 1 in the course of ah artie’e in “John Bu'l.” entitled “Why We I ost.” He attributes defeat to tliree causes. First, the natural desire for a change after four and a-hhlf vears of steady. I'ut unexciting ' administration; sec- 1 ondlv, the prolonged campaign of disparagement of Baldwin Government hv the popular press; thirdly, the t rold-hTooded. u/cT’Wf "T.'liml George’s fund for 'sabotage of many Conservative seats, p'ssih'v irrespective of the immediate interests of Liberalism. He adds: “'T set forth these, not in complaint or recrimination, hut as matters of indisputable, historical fact.”