THE BRITISH U.E.P.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1930, Page 6

THE BRITISH U.E.P.

“Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere are forming a United Empire Party as a separate political organisation. complete with campaign funds camlid.'.tes, and election agents, iri or(hr to secure the immediate adoption r l ' mi Emp : " r> Free Trade policy. The only rvn ! t of their action will be to split the T hr!onist Party and to help the cause of the Liberal and Socialist Parties .which are opposed to all forms of Imperial preference. Their dvcleared object is to fight the Unionists Party where it is strongest, and the more they suceed in splitting the Unionist vote the more certain will it become that the Socialist Party will lv enabled to secure air independent majority, while the cause of Empire I'ree Trade will be set hack perhaps for - generation.”—Leaflet issued by the Conservative and Unionist Central Office.

7 'G.B S.” AND THE CHAIN LETTER “I have never signed nor passed on a. chain or snowball letter of any kind : and I have ifever lost an opportunity of urging that the criminally thoughtless people who start or forward such things should he executed without benefit of clergy. T should be glad to have my views made known as widely as possible, ns some liar lias put my name on a list of persons accompanying a chain le+tev now in circulation which, if its silly intention were ' ril'd out, would break the back of all the postmen and bankrupt all the postmn.stersdGenernV i'll the world. NL George Bernard Shaw.