BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1930, Page 6

BRITISH POLITICS.

AN EARLY POSSIBILITY

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LONDON, June 23

The “Daily Herald” says: The coming week will be full of incident. The Cabinet on Tuesday will have to decide their unemployment policy, on which they may decide to stand or fall. Furthermore, if the House of Lords again insists on its amendments to the Coal Mines Bill, there will be a first-class crisis, and possibly an early election." In the meantime the ministerialists are petitioning Mr Ramsay MacDonald to proceed with new naval construction. This relates to an impending announcement regarding the Navy programme on Wednesday, in which it may be found that the Ministry is discreetly spreading the building over a long period.”

GENEVA DELEGATES,

RUGBY, June 20. The Prime Minister announced that the chief British delegates to the forthcoming Assembly of the League of Nations would be Mr Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary; Mr William Graham, President of the Board of Trade; Viscount Cecil and Miss Susan Lawrence, Parliamentary secretaries, to the Ministry of Health.

NAVAL POLICY

■ RUGBY, ’ June 20. Replying in the House of Cpmfnons to a series of questions, Mr Arthur Hendersoh, Foreign Secretary, said that, while no Franco-British negotiations on naval armament had taken place since the adjournment of the London Naval Conference, the subject had naturally come up in conversation with the French and Italian Foreign Ministers during his recent visit to Geneva.! As regards the proposal made in the questions for the suspension of naval shipbuilding, he referred members to the conciliatory offer of the. Italian Government to suspend, while the negotiations' for. which the Naval Conference was adjourned were proceeding, the laying down of any units of: their 1930 genera}, programme, provided similar action was taken by the French Government. ■,