Narcotic Government

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 215, 30 November 1927, Page 1

Narcotic Government

“DROWSING IN STUPIDITY” H. G. Wells Writes in Gall By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright.

THE well-known writer, Mr. attack on the Prime Mini his Government, in an article rpHE only salvation .of the country, A he says, is a coalition of the Liberal and the Labour Parties, under the leadership of Mr. Philip Snowden, the former Labour Chancellor of - the Exchequer, who is the one man who can best lead the Empire back to sanity, security, service and peace. What exists is to be considered merely as a narcotic Government, drowsing inattentively in a situation which is really the most dangerous Britain has ever known.

den, as a man, has the peculiar quality of greatness. Mr. Llo. d Georg? might work with him, because he does not possess the narrowmindedness of Sir Herbert Samuel, or the lonely vanity of

It is stupidity, and not merely passive stupidity, as w«'.s once believed, but active stupidity. Mr Wells challenges the Government with setting things moving in the direction of war on three cardinal points. The first is supporting aggressively the reactionary Prime Minister of Italy, Signor Mussolini, the author of a tawdry, unclean tyranny, to a pitch amounting to the virtual betrayal of republican France and Germany; secondly, the failure *o reach an understanding with America: thirdly, the Russian muddle, resulting from breaking off trade relations, and thus creating an impression in the

LONDON. Monday. 11. G. Wells, makes a slashing iter. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, and in the “Daily Express.” world generally, and in Russia parti cularly, that Britain is the foremost enemy of the Soviet. Even the grave social war that Is being waged at home is dwarfed, says Mr. Wells, by the monstrous international -dangers. He condemns as implacable stupidity the policy of pure Liberalism of Sir H. L. Samuel, the former High Commissioner of Palestine. and the fantastic vanity and loneliness of the Leader of the Labour Party, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. This rules out a Liberal-Labour coalition majority. Britain, he says, wants such a coalition and there must be a Labour leader. Mr. Snow-

Mr. MacDonald. Sir H. Samuel Mr. Wells advocates that everybody at the next general election should disregard the differences between the Liberal and Labour Parties, and vote for the legitimate claimant to the seat, whether Liberal or Labour, defeating the Conservative candidate.—A. and N.Z.