PRESS CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1930, Page 4

PRESS CONFERENCE

VISIT BY MIL BALDEN. Press Association—-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

(Received this.'.day at 8 a.m.)

LONDON. June 25

Prolonged applause, and cheers greeted the appearance of Mr Stanley Baldwin at the Press.,...Conference. The delegates laughed, j. uproariously when :vir Baldwin said >he had proposed to I Lepare 'an but had Been pre-occupied for : the, last three days, therefore the oration : would not take place. He would simply talk, not as a party leader, but as:one who had lived midst the great events - of many critical years of two generations’ evolution packed into four years. Mr Baldwin traced the development or the Labour Movement which was largely idealistic ill the early days. When the ideals came into the market fl'ade, they ljackme: tarnished with class feeling and hilt red. The party attracted people who- - saw the movement as a means for personal advancement and Labour 'befcame “a normal nealth, political movement. Labour had come to stay its an alternative Government to Government of right.’* Referring to postwar troubles, Mr Baldwin said-it was infinitely'easier to lead a G over nitre nt'’ -t ha n the opposition. Statesmen Should have told the country after the artiiisice what it was up against, instead of making the fatal blunder of talking About the good time coming, England was the centre of world problems'; with-her fate wrapped up in the future of It quarter of the world. The problems of India, the oolonies and mandated territories bore with the greatest weight on England who alone had . to :! provide the political education and ''development of all the, vast British 'territories except the Dominions. It was aii appalling task.